Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

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

7 reviews

msgslibrary's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

An essential entry text for the current state of fat liberation philosophy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Fatphobia, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Mental illness, Ableism, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Racism, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, Classism, Misogyny, Transphobia, Genocide, Xenophobia, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Violence

ankerrigan's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

If you love the Maintenance Phase podcast, you'll love this book, which is basically an extension of the podcast's major themes. The only thing it's missing is Michael Hobbes' witty banter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Body shaming

Moderate: Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Medical content, Mental illness, and Misogyny

Minor: Transphobia, Racism, Toxic friendship, Ableism, and Police brutality

breadbummer's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Dysphoria, Body shaming, and Racism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Terminal illness, Child abuse, Bullying, Sexual violence, and Ableism

Minor: Self harm, Incest, and Hate crime

mystic319's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

I think this book is an excellent primer on antifatness, and it was clearly researched thoroughly. It is more detached from Aubrey's usual wit and charm on Matienance Phase, as it hones in on the science quite a bit more than on the personal. I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with that, but it did make the chapters feel overloaded with a lot of information in a relatively short span of time. I also found some of the information redundant, though that is probably intentional in a book geared towards people who may have no prior exposure to antifatness. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Eating disorder, Police brutality, and Sexual harassment

toriffic's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Fatphobia, Hate crime, and Eating disorder

Minor: Deportation, Dysphoria, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Emotional abuse, Police brutality, Chronic illness, Medical content, Islamophobia, Lesbophobia, Murder, Cultural appropriation, and Homophobia

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

notmeganyoung's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

A great primer for dismantling anti-fat bias, but not a book for someone already very familiar with fat liberation. If you listen to it from beginning to end it gets repetitive, but I suppose it’s structured that way so that you can read it out of order or just a little bit at a time. I will recommend this book to some friends and family but unfortunately I think this is the kind of book where the people who could *really* benefit from reading it will not be the ones reading it. That’s not to say it wasn’t excellently written or that there’s nothing to gain for you here if you are already a fan of Aubrey Gordon. There is a lot here that she has said before on Maintenance Phase, but there’s also new stuff here. For me though, I was missing her sense of humor and fiery passion which are so evident in her conversations. The reflection questions and opportunities for action at the end of each chapter were great.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Racism, Homophobia, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Lesbophobia, Eating disorder, Dysphoria, and Classism