Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

You Just Need to Lose Weight: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon

24 reviews

redefiningrachel's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Racism, and Medical content

Moderate: Homophobia, Gaslighting, Death, Transphobia, Mental illness, Xenophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Classism, Self harm, Chronic illness, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Cursing and Addiction

knit_the_resistance's review against another edition

dark informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

If you haven't listened to Maintenance Phase, you probably should. Everyone should listen to/read this book, it's important. 
However.
If I'm not mistaken, the book is a series of blog posts or essays strung together. Or at least that's how they read. Rarely have I listened to a book that needed editing for continuity more. It is so intensely repetitive --even within the same essay, let alone among chapters, that it was hard to maintain attention at times. 
The author relies on the wire deep and deeply. I found myself counting the repetitions. Frustrating, because I like the podcast.
But the podcast feels like haranguing, and the book feels like the podcast. So. I didn't love it, but it's important. 
One minor comment: the last chapter deals with "fat phobia is the last sanctioned form of discrimination" but goes on to discuss the countless other forms of discrimination in American society. It very pointedly does not mention antisemitism, which I found an interesting oversight. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Racism, Bullying, Medical content, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Ableism, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Transphobia

katekatiekait's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming

Moderate: Eating disorder, Ableism, Fatphobia, Racism, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

Minor: Colonisation, Dysphoria, Police brutality, and Classism

abitbetterbooks's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

Amazing. My first Aubrey Gordon book but I will definitely be reading her other work! I loved listening to the audiobook since it was narrated by Gordon herself and it added that extra personal element which I really enjoyed. 

This book does a great job of moving through issues in a really thorough manner. My only issue with the book was that because each myth/chapter was self contained or could be read in isolation / out of order, there were some elements that were repeated that felt unnecessary when listening through the whole thing in chronological order. But even still, that did serve to continue driving some key points home. As someone who considers herself fairly well versed in fat liberation & fat studies, diet culture & eating disorders, I still found myself learning new things! In particular I found that Gordon has a way of perfectly wording things and distilling big themes and issues down to key elements that would be really helpful to have in ones arsenal to confront anti-fatness wherever you may Glen counter it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Body shaming

Moderate: Ableism

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia, Homophobia, Classism, Eating disorder, Racism, Colonisation, Medical content, Sexism, and Transphobia

sharleight's review against another edition

challenging informative fast-paced

5.0

As a fat person, I have a lot of feelings regarding all of the insightful research and perspectives in this book. Aubrey Gordon is wonderful. This is a must read for anyone looking to expand their knowledge around fat liberation and body acceptance, as well as anyone interested in unpacking their own implicit biases.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Ableism, Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Suicide, Misogyny, Transphobia, Sexual content, Racism, Addiction, Homophobia, and Bullying

phoenix2818's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

Moderate: Body shaming

Minor: Biphobia, Transphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Medical content, Racism, Ableism, Body shaming, and Chronic illness

throwback682's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective

5.0

This book was very informative, with a mixture of peer reviewed research and personal experiences of the author and others. Each myth was discussed in detail and then followed by questions for self reflection and/or concrete suggestions for actions to take in support of fat acceptance. The author does a great job of explaining both the systemic and personal impacts of anti fatness, as well as how it interacts with other systems of oppression such as racism, misogyny, or ableism. As someone who is small fat (US women’s size 18) I feel I learned a lot about how to address fatphobia that is leveled towards me, but also how to be a better ally to those fatter than me. As the author notes, its chapters could easily be read out of order if there are certain myths that appeal (or challenge you) more. This book also contains many suggestions for further reading throughout. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Fatphobia, Ableism, Eating disorder, Sexism, Bullying, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Cancer, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Death, Deportation, Terminal illness, Classism, Colonisation, Murder, and Acephobia/Arophobia

ally_alert's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Eating disorder

Minor: Rape, Sexism, Hate crime, Ableism, Transphobia, Sexual harassment, Classism, and Racism

rblue7's review against another edition

challenging informative fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Body shaming

Moderate: Medical trauma, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual harassment, Ableism, and Transphobia

Minor: Homophobia and Toxic friendship

bi_n_large's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Transphobia, Misogyny, Mental illness, Racism, Homophobia, and Medical trauma

Minor: Medical content