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A touching, tender and at times funny account of a woman’s struggle for stature in a 4 foot 8 1/2 inch tall body, Beyond Measure speaks to the heart of soul-breaking attempts to fit an arbitrary and elusive cultural ideal of physical perfection. Being short isn’t the problem, Ellen Frankel insists. Instead, the real difficulties…
Smart, sassy, sensual and soulful — five women share the poetry & process of fat embodiment. In a sociocultural climate in which fat bodies are considered diseased and blamed for everything from rising medical costs to global warning, it takes courage for fat women, especially, to express anything but shame about their bodies. Fat Poets…
The hidden history of FatLand — a territory established by people seeking freedom from the oppressive Pro-Health Laws of the United States of America — is revealed in Volume II of The FatLand Trilogy. They only wanted to build a land where they would be accepted. But when three archivists set out to discover how…
Reluctant sleuth Josephine Fuller is back, and this time she can’t resist throwing her weight around. Fuller is working as a philinthropic investigator at a women’s center in Seattle when she is faced with the mysterious death of her ex-husband’s girlfriend, a woman that Fuller herself wouldn’t have minded seeing vanish. She also has other…
A new weight loss clinic in New York City has an offer for you — given them $5,000 and they’ll make you as thin as a supermodel. You can eat whatever you want and you’ll never gain an ounce. Tempted? Fledgling journalist Karen Sumner would be — if only she had $5,000. When Karen finally…
Fat is bad, right? For the last decade we have been so inundated with negative messages about fat that it is revolutionary to think otherwise. This rhetoric has increased prejudice and decreased health in the very people targeted for “help” while increasing profits for those perpetuating it. Considering empirical studies and statistics as well as…
Small town boy journeys from Ponce, Puerto Rico to Manhattan: a riff on many famous movies and books. Except in this case the boy is gay, confused, frightened, and trying to find where he will fit in and be happy. The story has a happy ending—of sorts. Boy from Ponce finds companionship, happiness, and his proud…
Life is a journey we all make, adjusting to conditions along the way. Linda Wisniewski’s memoir takes the reader along as she travels, keeping what feeds her soul and discarding the rest. As she comes to terms with her Polish Catholic heritage, her physical deformity, and her widowed mother, the author finds peace lies at the heart…
Learn to name your feelings, evaluate your reactions, discover your triggers, recognize your successes, and plan your emotionally healthy future with this zine. Within you’ll find the companion worksheets to Dr. Faith G. Harper’s hit book Unfuck Your Brain, plus helpful exercises to calm your breathing and regulate your emotions in any situation. About the…
Boundaries are the ways we communicate our needs. They are what allow us to feel safe among strangers, in everyday interactions, and in our closest relationships. When we have healthy boundaries, we have a strong foundation in an uncertain world. And when someone crosses your boundaries, or you cross someone else’s, the result range from unsettling to…
Volume 1 of The FatLand Trilogy. In the near future the Pro-Health Laws of the United States of America have become so oppressive that people seeking freedom over their bodies have established a new country. In FatLand, life is good and scales are forbidden. Free from the hatred and discrimination of the Other Side, FatLanders…
Making maturity fun again! Dr. Faith explains the fundamentals of adulting in this expanded version of her mini pocket zine. Spoiler: None of the requirements are about having certain jobs, kids, possessions, and debts or being totally bored and stressed out and hating your life. It’s hard work to do adult stuff well but the…
The irresistible companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller Dumplin’, now a Netflix feature film starring Danielle Macdonald and Jennifer Aniston, and a soundtrack by Dolly Parton! Millie Michalchuk has gone to fat camp every year since she was a little girl. Not this year. This year she has new plans to chase her…
In the past decade, obesity has emerged as a major public health concern in the United States and abroad. At the federal, state, and local level, policy makers have begun drafting a range of policies to fight a war against fat, including body-mass index (BMI) report cards, “;snack taxes,”; and laws to control how fast…
Recommended by the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Book Riot, BuzzFeed, Bust, LitHub, The Millions, HelloGiggles, and UrbanDaddy “The author you need to read now.” (Chicago Tribune) “To say this collection is transgressive, provocative, and brilliant is simply to tell you the truth.” (Roxane Gay, author of Hunger and Bad Feminist) Smart, humorous,…
Boundaries are the ways we communicate our needs. They are what allow us to feel safe among strangers, in everyday interactions, and in our closest relationships. When we have healthy boundaries, we have a strong foundation in an uncertain world. And when someone crosses your boundaries, or you cross someone else’s, the result range from unsettling to…
Our brains are doing our best to help us out, but they can be real assholes sometimes. Sometimes it seems like your own brain is out to get you—melting down in the middle of the grocery store, picking fights with your date, getting you addicted to something, or shutting down completely at the worst possible…
A supplementary workbook to A People’s Guide to Publishing
Are other people constantly intruding on your personal space, using your stuff, disrespecting you, and otherwise violating your boundaries? You can’t control what they do, but you can control how you understand and communicate your own needs and make choices about how you behave and respond to the people around you. Dive deep into self-work…
The second edition of this incredibly useful guide on how to makes zines, especially in the Digital Age. In this new edition of Microcosm’s popular DIY guide to zine-making, Joe Biel updates the information provided in the first edition (edited by Biel and the late and great Bill Brent) to address zine making in today’s…
So, you want to publish books. Drawing on 23 years of experience operating an independent publishing company, Joe Biel has written the most accessible and comprehensive guide to running a successful publishing business. You’ll learn all the skills of the trade, including how to: Develop your individual books to connect with readers on a practical…
Take a journey through the worlds of over thirty transgender women and (C)AMAB nonbinary writers in what is currently the largest collection of poetry and prose made for and by us. Nominated for Best Transgender Fiction by Lambda Literary in 2017.
Pop culture stereotypes, shopping frustrations, fat jokes, and misconceptions about health are all ways society systemically rejects large bodies. Big is a collection of personal and intimate experiences of plus size women, non-binary, and trans people in a society obsessed with thinness. Revealing insights that are both funny and traumatic, surprising and challenging, familiar and…
* 2021 Notable Social Studies Trade Books * What if every young girl loved her body? Love Your Body encourages you to admire and celebrate your body for all the amazing things it can do (like laugh, cry, hug, and feel) and to help you see that you are so much more than your body….
A mutant potato learns that he’s pear-fect just the way he is in this bright, fun, and silly picture book from the creator of It Came in the Mail that will have kids collapsing in giggles (and rescuing the contents of the vegetable drawer). Rot is a mutant potato. Like most mutant potatoes, Rot loves…
