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Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives by Bruce Owens Grimm, Miguel M. Morales, Tiff Ferentini
2 reviews
orlagal's review
4.5
Graphic: Acephobia/Arophobia, Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Death of parent, Vomit, Violence, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Rape, Racism, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Outing, Mental illness, Medical content, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Hate crime, Grief, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, and Dysphoria
maisierosereads's review
3.5
Fat and Queer is a valuable addition to the queer canon, showcasing a wide range of writers: from debut to well-known (did you notice Carmen Maria Machado's name on the author list?); poets to essayists; people who happen to be fat through to gainers (people who intentionally gain weight as part of a kink); people of various races, ages, genders, and sexualities. This book contains around 40 standalone pieces of writing about many aspects of the fat queer experience. There are many difficult topics covered on these pages, and it challenges readers to think critically about any anti-fat biases we may have internalised, but also a large amount of fat queer joy.
I would have liked there to be some way of knowing the format of each piece from the contents list - particularly as I honestly can't tell if a couple of them are fiction or nonfiction - but I did like that such a wide variety of forms was collected together in one place, with poems interspersed throughout, in between longer pieces of prose.
I would have also liked there to be a list of content warnings included in this book for all readers to easily access, especially due to the frequency of some very common triggers. Here is my list of warnings for this collection: drug use, alcohol use, homophobia, fatphobia, death (including of a parent), vomit, medical content, suicide attempt, sexual content, ableism, self harm, suicide, eating disorders (including anorexia, bulemia, binge eating disorder), racism, misgendering, transphobia, rape, sexual assault & harrassment, abuse, body dysmorphia
I will also note that in several of the pieces in the eARC I accessed, there were strange errors where parts of sentences were missing, with parts of other sentences repeated in their place. Hopefully this will be corrected for the finished copy so this hasn't affected my rating.
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Deadnaming, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, and Vomit