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Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives by
12 reviews
iheartm4m's review
5.0
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, Chronic illness, and Eating disorder
Moderate: Dysphoria, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Biphobia, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Sexual assault
the_vegan_bookworm's review
5.0
Graphic: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Body shaming, Transphobia, and Fatphobia
Moderate: Racism and Bullying
orlagal's review against another edition
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
lesbrarycard's review against another edition
4.0
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!
Moderate: Homophobia and Fatphobia
ahliahreads's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Fatphobia, Homophobia, Transphobia, and Child abuse
melaniereadsbooks's review against another edition
4.25
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
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
aftin148's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Transphobia, Homophobia, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Suicide, and Rape
maisierosereads's review against another edition
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
madelonpaige's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Homophobia
southafricanfangirl's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Fatphobia
Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, and Homophobia