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A 10-step approach to ditch diet culture, heal your relationship with food, and learn to love your body from clinical psychologist Alexis Conason. Diets don’t work–and it’s not your fault. As a culture, we’re told (and tell ourselves) that if we just lost the weight–tried a little harder, had a little more willpower, or deprived…
Most women have spent time dieting and trying to change themselves in order to fit into a moldβand a bodyβthat is deemed socially acceptable. Yet it is dieting that is the problem: it disconnects us from our bodies wisdom and holds us back from living life to the fullest. The more time we spend trying…
“Bacon has found their voice in this book, and it’s a voice we all need to hear right now”βLibrary Journal “Belonging has been a formative struggle for me. Like most people with marginalized identities, my experience has taught me that it’s hard to be yourself and feel like you belong in a culture that is…
From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice. Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Donβt Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have…
Make peace with food. Free yourself from chronic dieting forever. Rediscover the pleasures of eating. The go-to resourceββnow fully revised and updatedββfor building a healthy body image and making peace with food, once and for all. When it was first published, Intuitive Eating was revolutionary in its anti-dieting approach. The authors, both prominent health professionals…
βThe F*ck It Diet is not only hilarious, it is scientifically and medically sound. A must read for any chronic dieter.β βChristiane Northrup, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Β Womenβs Bodies, Womenβs Wisdom From comedian and ex-diet junkie Caroline Dooner, an inspirational guide that will help you stop dieting, reboot your relationship with food,…
Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to accept and enjoy the way you look instead of constantly worrying about and criticizing your appearance? What if instead of focusing on your flaws, you felt confident with the body you have right now? If you don’t like what you see when you look in…
Over the past twenty-five years, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. In our culture, “fat” has become a four-letter word. Or, as Lance Armstrong said to the wife of a former teammate, “I called you crazy. I called you a bitch. But I never called you…
Fat isnβt the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesnβt match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates Βthinβ with Βhealthyβ is the problem. The solution? Health at Every Size. Tune in to your bodyβs expert guidance. Find the joy in movement….
Taking Up Space is a sociological memoir about being fat and the physical, emotional and economic costs of trying to pass for thin in a culture that stigmatizes fat people. Making her own life a case study, medical sociologist Pattie Thomas, Ph.D., with the help of her co-author and husband Carl Wilkerson, M.B.A., outlines how…
Details: Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Women’s Studies. With a foreword by Vivian Mayer. SHADOW ON A TIGHTROPE is a collection of articles, personal stories, and poems by fat women, about their lives and the fat- hating society in which they live. Topics include: exposing the myths concerning fat; what it’s like to grow up fat; a…
The actress, comedian, and podcaster extraordinaire’s guide to being a #brave, bikini-wearing badass. If youβve ever seen a fat person post a bikini shot on social media, you already know that they are #verybrave, because apparently existing in a fat body in public is #brave. I, Nicole Byer, wrote this book to 1. share my…
You are already enough, and you are not too much. J. Nicole Morgan grew up fat and loving Jesus. But she was forever burdened by what she saw as her biggest spiritual flaw: her weight. In Fat and Faithful, she shares her journey from body shame to fat acceptance and shows us how to care…
Hailed by The New York Times as a βfeminist classic,β and βAmericaβs bestselling book on womenβs health,β the comprehensive guide to all aspects of womenβs health and sexuality, including menopause, birth control, childbirth, sexual health, sexual orientation, gender identity, mental health and general well-being. Six years after the 2005 overhaul of this classic guide to…
Combatting fatphobia and racism to reclaim a space for womxn at the intersection of fat and Black To be a womxn living in a body at the intersection of fat and Black is to be on the margins. From concern-trolling–“I just want you to be healthy “–to outright attacks, fat Black bodies that fall outside…
It’s the summer of drinking and driving, disco and diets, fake IDs and geology, and fat 17-year-old Char is wondering if she is animal, vegetable, or mineral. What does it mean when your best friend French-braids your hair, kisses you on the lips, and leaves town? Char gets a summer job in a nursing home,…
What rights, if any, do fat people have? If a child is obese, are the parents legally responsible? Can employers treat overweight employees as different, or disabled? Should fat people be protected by disability laws? Cases of illegal hiring practices, workplace prejudice, harassment, unfair treatment, medical malpractice, and denial of public access are being filed…
βNothing is more brilliant and juicy to me than a woman stepping fully into her selfβmind, body, and spirit, full throttle, without apology. Kimberly Dark has been illuminating the path for a long time. This book is a triumph. This book is a jailbreak from cultural inscriptions meant to keep us locked up, shut up,…
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Public enemy. Crucial macronutrient. Health risk. Punchline. Moneymaker. Epidemic. Sexual fetish. Moral failing. Necessary bodily organ. Conveyor of flavor. Freak-show spectacle. Never mind the stereotype, fat is never sedentary: its definitions, identities, and meanings are manifold and in…
Curvy Girl SexΒ provides tried and tested methods, positions, and sex hacks for plus-sized lovers of all types, and does it all in an empowering, body-positive light. Who says you have to be a size 6 to have the best sex of your life? Curvy Girl Sex is here to show you that regardless of size,…
Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can’t be funny. Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible — like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you…
AN AMC ORIGINAL SERIES FROM EXECUTIVE PRODUCER MARTI NOXON,Β STARRING JOY NASH AND JULIANNA MARGULIES The diet revolution is here. And itβs armed. Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when youβre fat, to be noticed is to be judged. With her job answering fan mail for a teen magazine, she is…
Love, Romance, and Great Big Sexuality for Everyone Big Big Love is the only one-stop-shopping handbook on relationships, sexuality, and big sexy confidence for people of all genders, sizes, and sexual orientations who know that a fantastic love life doesnβt necessarily have anything to do with the number on the bathroom scale. Covering everything from…
In this fun, fresh, fat-positive anthology, fat activist and sex educator Virgie Tovar brings together voices from an often-marginalized community to talk about and celebrate their lives. Hot & Heavy rejects the idea that being thin is best, instead embracing the many fabulous aspects of being fat — building fat-positive spaces, putting together fat-friendly wardrobes,…
