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…
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…
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,…
Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this “viscerally elegant” and “intimately edgy” memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile America (Kirkus Reviews). Randa Jarrar is a fearless voice of dissent who has been called “politically…
Nature gave me wings. Who are you to bid me hide them? There’s a new print of my work available in the Body Love Shop! The woman in this photograph has glorious wings on her arms that she lifts towards the ceiling, looking out a window into a large covered open space, in this black-and-white-photograph. She is fat, has…
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Image description: Three fat women stand back to back with hands entwined in a grassy park. In a fat-folks-only Zoom call last night, a friend looked around and said, “You know, this is the first time I’ve ever been in a space with only fat folks in it before. It’s wonderful.” It’s necessary and vital…
One of the most common pieces of pushback I see against fat acceptance and the need to represent fat and very fat people is, “Why are you so negative? Can’t we all just celebrate all the progress that’s been made? You’re so divisive!” It’s often accompanied by more-enlightened-than-thou comments about wanting to focus on “the good,” as if those of us confronting oppression are somehow more negative than those who want to cover up and ignore it.
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There’s a new print of my work available in the Body Love Shop! In this fine art photograph, a fat woman with brown skin and long black hair, wearing a sleeveless floral dress and a flower in her hair, is shown from the waist up. She’s holding up one end of a long strand of…
Nothing is Okay is the second full-length poetry collection by Rachel Wiley, whose work simultaneously deconstructs the lies that we were taught about our bodies and our beings, and builds new ways of viewing ourselves. As she delves into queerness, feminism, fatness, dating, and race, Wiley molds these topics into a punching critique of culture…
CorazΓ³n is a love story. It is about the constant hunger for love. It is about feeding that hunger with another person and finding that sometimes it isnβt enough. Salgado creates a world in which the heart can live anywhere; her fat brown body, her parents’ home country, a lover, a toothbrush, a mango, or…
Details: Smoke Girl is a study in loss: of body, safety, and identity. It interrogates the simultaneous invisibility and hypervisibility of fat, Black, femme bodies. Instead of forgetting, Simone Person breaks the silences and shame embedded in the murky aftermath of sexual assault, employing the voices of victim, perpetrator, and spectator throughout. Simone Person’s poetry…
Baseball tore Edy Wallaceβs family apart when she was a child, and now she paints all athletes with the same broad brush. She refuses to have some player running around on her like her father did to her mother, so she avoids getting involved with the scoundrels on the team her father manages. When Reedsville…
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Go to Vegasβ¦Accidentally marry a good girlβ¦ Logan Cross has nearly destroyed his career with his bad boy antics, and marrying his best friendβs little sister, Jezebel, has to be the stupidest thing heβs ever done. Now he needs a quickie divorce so that he can get back to cutting ties with his fatherβs record…
Olivia is Anna Wintourβs worst nightmare, and she doesnβt give a shit. Sheβs wanted to go into fashion design her whole life, and nothing is going to stop her fabulous plus sized self. Not even her boss from hell, or the fact that sheβs the fat Cinderella of the most exclusive lingerie store in Bushwick,…
After the untimely passing of her father, Tillar Reed had to grow up quickly and let go of her childish desires for fairytales, romance and true loveβs first kiss. But when she finds herself back home for the first time in years to keep her fatherβs house in the family, she meets an unlikely Prince…
A curvy woman who’s alone at Christmas + a hard-working bear shifter who needs to get in touch with his animal side + a cozy cabin in the middle of nowhere = a red-hot holiday romance! This Christmas has been more naughty than nice for Hazel Granger. Her now very much ex-boyfriend stood her up…
Chase Hillier has plans, and nothing will cause her to deviate from them. So far, they’re pretty simple: Get through her first year of college with good grades, read a lot of books, and hopefully find a cute boyfriend who could turn into her husband someday. She’s got it all mapped out. No one is…
Will he still love her every touchβ¦ when he finds out who she really is? For years, Ethan Michaels has plotted to reclaim the resort his mother founded. His plan never included a loverβ¦or a pregnancy. But his desire-fueled fling with smart, stunning Harper Williams results in just that. Now heβs getting used to the…
βTis the season to fall in loveβ¦ Jenise Langley has always been known in her family as βMs. Independentβ. A seasoned trial attorney now managing the Miami branch of the prestigious Langley Law firm, sheβs all about taking care of herself and her business. Until Savian Donovan walks into her office and opens the door…
Minerva Dobbs knows that happily-ever-after is a fairy tale, especially with a man who asked her to dinner to win a bet. Even if he is gorgeous and successful Calvin Morrisey. Cal knows commitment is impossible, especially with a woman as cranky as Min Dobbs. Even if she does wear great shoes, and keep him…
From Newbery Honor- and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author RenΓ©e Watson comes a heartwarming and inspiring novel for middle schoolers about finding deep roots and exploring the past, the present, and the places that make us who we are. All Amara wants for her birthday is to visit her fatherβs…
It’s not my body that’s holding me back. It’s more of a problem that people keep telling me it should. Meet Emily Daly, a stylish, cute, intelligent and hilarious seventeen-year-old about to start her last year at school. Emily is also fat. She likes herself and her body. When she meets Joe at a house…
Stonewall Honor Book! βA love letter to queerness, self-expression, and individuality (also Madonna) that never shies away from the ever-present fear within the queer community of late ’80s New York, Like a Love Story made me feel so fullβof hope, love, courage, pride, and awe for the many people who fought for love and self-expression…
The irresistible companion to the #1 New York Times bestseller Dumplinβ, 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…
A Cuban-American teen navigates social anxiety, her fatherβs remarriage, and being torn between two very cute boys in this βgenuine and humorousβ (Booklist) contemporary novelβperfect for fans of Morgan Matson and Kasie West. Ever since her mom died three years ago, Analee Echevarria has had trouble saying out loud the weird thoughts that sit in…
Diverse book recommended by The Today Show *Β An Amazon Best Book of 2020 * One of B&N’s 100 Books of Summer for Teens & YA * A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020 The world of K-Pop has never met a star like this. Debut author Lyla Lee delivers a deliciously fun, thoughtful rom-com celebrating…
Claire Kann’s If It Makes You Happy is a coming-of-age novel about a young girl learning to embrace her cultural and sexuality identity. Winnie is living her best fat girl life and is on her way to the best place on earth. No, not Disneyland–her Grannyβs diner, Goldeenβs, in the small town of Misty Haven….
Sometimes the perfect Chanukah gift can change everything. Newly divorced stone butch Jordan moves into her friend Leahβs spare room, ready, at 49, to take on a new job and finally explore kink and polyamory. But moving to NYC during the holidays sends grief crashing through her, and Jordan realizes that when she isnβt solely…
When librarian Poe Markham takes the job at Thornchapel, she only wants two things: to stay away from Thornchapelβs tortured owner, Auden Guest, and to find out what happened to her mother twelve years ago. It should be easy enoughβkeep her head down while she works in the houseβs crumbling private library and while she…
Kenny, the Asian-American spy, has been dating Maya, the fat Black cam model, for a few months. He used to be the kind of guy who didnβt put anything above his job and his ambition to become the best spy at The Agency. (Or second best spy, next to his idol.) But now that heβs…
A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft. Nova Huang knows more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmothersβ bookshop, where she helps them loan out spell books and investigate any supernatural occurrences in their New England town. One fateful night, she follows reports of a white wolf into…
The irresistible companion novel to the New York Times bestseller When Dimple Met Rishi, which follows Rishi’s brother, Ashish, and a confident, self-proclaimed fat athlete named Sweetie as they both discover what love means to them. Ashish Patel didn’t know love could be so…sucky. After being dumped by his ex-girlfriend, his mojo goes AWOL. Even…
In this queer polyamorous m/f romance novella, two metamours realize they have crushes on each other while planning their shared partner’s birthday party together. Ernest, a Jewish autistic demiromantic queer fat trans man submissive, and Nora, a Jewish disabled queer fat femme cis woman switch, have to contend with an age gap, a desire not…
Hotel chain mogul Sol DuMont is about to learn that some of lifeβs biggest surprises come in deceptively small packagesβnamely a petite heiress named Rain whoβs hell-bent on upsetting her familyβs expectationsβin this first book in the all new series by Thea de Salle, set against the sultry backdrop of New Orleans. Thirty-seven-year-old Sol DuMont…
All bodies are good bodies. Except fat bodies. At least that’s what our society tells us. According to the prevailing dogma, thin bodies are good; fat bodies are bad. In fact, any body that fails to measure up to society’s standards of perfection is bad. The perfect face has no blemishes, the perfect belly has…
An incendiary work of science journalism debunking the myths that dominate the American diet and showing readers how to stop feeling guilty and start loving their food againβsure to ignite controversy over our obsession with what it means to eat right. FREE YOURSELF FROM ANXIETY ABOUT WHAT YOU EAT Gluten. Salt. Sugar. Fat. These are…
Losing weight and changing your sexual orientation are both notoriously difficult to do successfully. Yet many faithful evangelical Christians believe that thinness and heterosexuality are godly idealsβand that God will provide reliable paths toward them for those who fall short. Seeking the Straight and Narrow is a fascinating account of the world of evangelical efforts…
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“Fat People Don’t Go to Heaven!” screamed a headline in the tabloid Globe in November 2000. The story recounted the success of the Weigh Down Workshop, the nation’s largest Christian diet corporation and the subject of extensive press coverage from Larry King Live to the New Yorker. In the United States today, hundreds of thousands…
Whether they are rich or poor, liberal or conservative, religious or atheist, thriving or stagnant, most American women have one thing in common–they want to be thin–or thinner. And they are willing to go to extraordinary lengths to get that way, even to the point of starving themselves. Why are America’s women so preoccupied with…
Stop Letting Small Business Marketing Burn You Out Do any of these sound familiar? “I love starting new projects, but I never seem to finish anything.” “I haven’t blogged in a year.” “I hate staring at a blank Instagram post every day, trying to think of something to say.” “I can do marketing okay when…
Image description: A fat woman’s shoulder, side rolls and hip are shown in a black-and-white photograph. During this pandemic, so many people are finding that their bodies, for the first time, are now in the “plus size” or “fatter than I wanted” categories, and are finding it a pretty scary place to be. It’s scary…
After nearly a year of work to move Body Liberation Stock to a new platform, I’m so pleased to announce that stock photo credits will once again become part of the Patreon rewards!
