Latinas Talk Fatphobia in the Latinx Community & Online [Video]

Fatphobia within the Latinx community has always been a prominent issue and continues to impact generations. While it’s presented itself in different forms within the community and pop culture, it’s found its way onto social media platform, TikTok, with viral videos perpetuating fatphobic beliefs. There has been a rise in videos as part of the “big back” trendwhere you can find people sharing clips of themselves eating or showing their food and/or creating makeshift fatsuits to make themselves look bigger. These coupled with the casual use of the term “big back” and even “fatty” contribute to the presence of fatphobia online. More specifically on “Latino TikTok”—or the side of TikTok with more Latinx creators or Latinx-centered videos—we’ve seen people, particularly younger Latino men, referring to women as “tortas” as a way to poke fun at them. In some of these videos, men will act out scenarios of them being catfished by a “torta” or …