What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

Aubrey Gordon

eBook - 2020

From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people.Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people’s experiences. Unlike the recent wave of memoirs and quasi self-help books that encourage readers to love and accept themselves, Gordon pushes the discussion further towards authentic fat activism, which includes ending legal weight discrimination, giving equal access to health care for lar...ge people, increased access to public spaces, and ending anti-fat violence. As she argues, “I did not come to body positivity for self-esteem. I came to it for social justice.”By sharing her experiences...

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Published
Beacon Press
Language
English
Main Author
Aubrey Gordon
Online Access
OverDrive Resource Page
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Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size5 GB
ISBN9780807041321
Release Date11/17/2020
Kindle Book
ASINB0852P7XR9
Release Date11/17/2020
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780807041321
Release Date11/17/2020