The Natasha Doll, Explained: What the Viral Trend Reveals About Stress and Your Body
The Natasha doll is a viral squishy stress toy shaped like a caricatured Black baby, and reporting describes a trend of people abusing the dark-skinned version for “stress relief.” Beyond how offensive that is, it points to something measurable: the physical toll that chronic racial stress takes on the body, known as allostatic load. Here […]
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