The Surprisingly Racist, Classist & Fatphobic History Of Public Swimming Pools

101: One of the most powerful American symbols of summer has always been a space where latent social tensions around race, class and now body size have led to conflict.

This summer I’ve contributed to several advice pieces on how to cope with body anxiety during the summer. Working on them led to a realization about how anxiety-provoking summer actually is - and I b…