Reviews with content warning for Fatphobia - Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives

I loved the different works included in this anthology, including poetry, short fiction and non-fiction essays. The featured writers had brilliant thoughts on the intersections of being fat, trans and queer including the ways it shapes gender expression, self-identity, relationships and the dynamics with oppressive institutions. I feel like I came away from this with many thoughtful reflections about the ways that fatphobia, transphobia and homophobia intersect and interact in my own life.

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

this was so beautiful! as expected, my favorite essay in this collection was Machado's, and it's a beautiful exploration of fatness within relationships with other people and with yourself. i loved the variety of perspectives shared within this collection.

my only complaint is that i think some of the themes could have been spread out more - it felt like the first half of the collection carried a very similar tone, and then it switched somewhere in the middle and the second half became darker and a bit repetitive. while i still enjoyed the majority of these stories, i wanted a chance to reflect on the story i had just read without comparing it to the one that came next.

overall, this is a beautiful book that has the potential to support and reassure queer and trans fat people around the world!

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emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

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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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