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sara_m_martins's review
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
Queer Body Power is a non-fiction on the Body Positivity movement, from an intersectional, queer perspective, and with a memoir-like feel to it. While part of the book focuses on body issues, I think it's main subject is how being queer affects how you feel and live in your body and its interaction with the outside world/society. So I would recommend this to queer people at large, to find a echo of what they may already feel, but not to someone who is, say, struggling with body dysmorphia.
"Queerness is so much more than a label that is supposedly required for dating. It is community, history, how you carry yourself in the world, fluidity, performance, identity, character, heart. Queerness is many things and all of those things at once."
The inclusion of interview excerpts is something that I have seen tried often, and seldom well-executed. Thankfully, it works really well here, adding while still keeping in the flow of the book.
I found the content itself, while not revolutionary, well-structured and I think this would be great for someone who needs a starting place or who feels they need a way to better get acquainted with the circle - it is sometimes hard to get all of these pieces of information if you're left to navigate the internet by yourself, and are not sure were to turn. I think it is also a good book to read generally as a queer person to see something you have experienced reflected and ponder about somethings you haven't considered before. I certainly found some pieces of information which lead me to reflect a bit on my experiences. Of course, non-queer people could also gain from further understanding what the experience in a queer body could be like.
Queer joy is why we are here. [...] We shouldn't have to spend our whole existence being told how hard it is to be queer; we deserve to embrace the wonderful things about it.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC. The opinions are my own and voluntarily given.
Content Warnings
Minor: Homophobia, Sexual harassment, Transphobia, Lesbophobia, Acephobia/Arophobia, Alcohol, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Chronic illness, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, and Misogyny
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