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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

6 reviews

theromanticace's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

Moderate: Sexual content

kayla_clark253's review against another edition

funny hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Sexual content, Racism, Outing, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Ableism, Transphobia, and Sexual assault

Minor: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

melaniereadsbooks's review

informative medium-paced

4.25

Thank you to Netgalley and Jessica Kingsley Publishers for an arc of this book.

This anthology combines a myriad of fat and queer voices to tell stories about the intersection of life when one is both fat and queer.  There are many voices represented in this book and they express their stories in different ways: essays, poetry, stories. 

I really enjoyed the diversity of voices represented throughout this anthology. Not only people with different queer identities, but also different races, ethnicities, backgrounds, and reasons for being fat. This book made me think about a lot of things I have never really considered about myself and how my fat and queer body interacts with the world. I feel like I learned a great deal from reading this book.

The only thing that bothered me was that similar voices seemed to be grouped together so that it felt like I was reading very similar essays all right in a row. I think I would  have enjoyed it more if these similar topics were more spread out throughout the anthology.

Pub Date: May 21, 2021

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

looney_moons's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

5.0

This anthology was an absolute treat to read. It brought a fresh perspective on Queerness and on being fat. It was nuanced, carefully curated, and most importantly, it was so incredibly well written through and through. This is an absolute must read, whether you're fat or not, or queer or not. Specifically for me, the essay 'A Fat Lot of Good That Did: How an Art Studio Transformed My Eyes' by Jerome Stueart was a hard-hitting experience to read. It deals with not acknowledging, or not knowing, what you actually look like, and as a trans person, this really hit home. While I am not fat, and cannot relate to the experience of being fat, I am Queer, and reading about queerness and gender in this way was very affirming for me. The aspect that dealt with fatness simply gave me a perspective that is not my own, but one that I enjoyed and learned from immensely.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Rape

Moderate: Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, and Racism

maisierosereads's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

 I was able to read an eARC of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. 

 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.

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Content Warnings

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

bookwormymegan's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Transphobia