Courtney J. Patterson-Faye is an African American Studies and sociology scholar who seeks to shift how the world regards the bodies of Black women. Her research and teaching interests include Black feminist thought, race, class and gender, Fat Studies, fashion studies, sexuality, cultural and medical sociology, and HIV/AIDS. She has published in The New Black Sociologists, Sexualities, Contemporary Black Female Sexualities, and the Du Bois Review. Currently, she is working on a manuscript that explores Black women's body size politics through lenses of popular culture, fashion, and sexuality.