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• Hunger

  a Memoir of (my) Body

  Gay, Roxane

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  Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• "You Just Need to Lose Weight"

  and 19 Other Myths About Fat People

  Gordon, Aubrey,

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  Among other myths, Gordon debunks the notions that fatness is a choice, that obesity is the leading cause of death in the U.S., that fat acceptance "glorifies obesity," that weight loss "is the result of healthy choices and should be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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

  Gordon, Aubrey,

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  As Gordon explains, nearly all of us are conditioned to see fat people as burdens, and it takes effort to unlearn this bias that is buried deeply in American culture. The author shows how obesity is seen as a personal and moral failing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• More, Please

  on Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "enough"

  Specter, Emma,

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  Millions of us use restrictive diets, intermittent fasting, IV therapies, and Ozempic abuse to shrink until we are sample-size acceptable. But for the 30 million Americans who live with eating disorders, it isn't just about less. More,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• T-shirt Swim Club

  Stories From Being Fat in a World of Thin People

  Karmel, Ian,

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  Part memoir, part support group, comedian Ian Karmel with help from his sister Alisa, a clinical psychologist, opens up about the daily humiliations of being fat and traces the way that fat - gaining it, losing it, worrying about it,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

  Maldonado, Crystal

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  Charlie Vega is smart, funny, artistic, ambitious. And fat. People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. The world wants Charlie to be thinner, lighter, slimmer-faced, straighter-haired, like her best friend…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Fat Black Girl

  Notes From a Trap Feminist

  Bowen, Sesali

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  Bowen begins with an overview of the intersection of feminism and trap music, then offers meditations on blackness, queerness, and fatness; for Bowen, they all overlap in the forms of racism, sexism, and fatphobia. The entire work is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Supervillain's Guide to Being a Fat Kid

  Wallace, Matt, 1982-

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  A fat boy battles bullies in a tale full of villains, heroes, bullies, and good guys. Maxwell Tercero is 11 and in his first year of middle school - where he finds that, just like elementary school, things are no fun for a fat kid. He is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl

  Loving the Skin You're in

  Holliday, Tess,

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  A plus-size model and the woman at the forefront of the body-positive movement, in a funny no-holds-barred account, shares her personal story and offers inspiration and tips to women everywhere that will show them how to love their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fatty Fatty Boom Boom

  a Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family

  Chaudry, Rabia,

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  A memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes oppressively concerned Pakistani immigrant family.

• Every Body Shines

  Sixteen Stories About Living Fabulously Fat

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  Sixteen stories celebrating fat teens with bodies of many shapes and from many communities, cultures, races, genders, and orientations in contemporary settings as well as fictional worlds.

• Unshrinking

  How to Face Fatphobia

  Manne, Kate,

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  The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it. Manne examines how anti-fatness operates - how it leads us to make…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unashamed

  Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim

  Vernon, Leah

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  In Unashamed, Vernon takes to task the myth of the perfect Muslim woman with frank dispatches on her love-hate relationship with her hijab and her faith, race, weight, mental illness, domestic violence, sexuality, the millennial world of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fat and Queer

  An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives

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  An anthology of writing from fat and queer authors, celebrating what it means to exist across these intersections.

• The (other) F Word

  a Celebration of the Fat & Fierce

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  The definitive collection of art, poetry, and prose, celebrating fat acceptance Chubby. Curvy. Fluffy. Plus-size. Thick. Fat. The time has come for fat people to tell their own stories. The (Other) F Word combines personal essays, prose,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fat Off, Fat on

  a Big Bitch Manifesto

  Kent, Clarkisha,

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  There was no easy way for Kent to navigate personal discovery and self-love. As a dark-skinned, first-generation American facing a myriad of mental health issues and intergenerational trauma, at times Kent's body felt like a cosmic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Because Fat Girl

  Fleming, Lauren Marie,

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  Diana is plus-size and genderqueer, making it challenging to navigate the notoriously looks-oriented film industry. After Hollywood star Chris Stanson, a regular customer, invites Diana's colleague Emmy to a party she has no interest in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Happy Fat

  Hagen, Sofie

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  Comedian Sofie Hagen shares how they removed fatphobic influences from their daily life and found self-acceptance in a world where judgement and discrimination are rife. From shame and sex to airplane seats, love and getting stuck in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls

  a Handbook of Unapologetic Living

  Baker, Jes,

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  With smart and sassy eloquence, veteran blogger Jes Baker calls on women to be proud of their bodies, fight against fat-shaming, and embrace a body-positive worldview to change public perceptions and help women maintain mental health. With…Read moreRead more of this annotation