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kelleykamanda's review
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Incredibly informative. A mix of essays and academic text. I found it informative but poetic at the same time. There were moments where the language felt really fluffy but overall I felt really hooked by the authors words.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Chronic illness, Self harm, Eating disorder, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, and Bullying
Moderate: Racism and Vomit
Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide
idkimoutofideas's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder and Mental illness
biscuithead's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder, Misogyny, Vomit, Mental illness, Medical content, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Self harm
camillatd's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
slow-paced
5.0
Dead Weight is an urgent, important, brutal, and hopeful book--possibly the best book I've read on eating disorders in the contemporary United States. In essays both rigorously well-researched and achingly personal, Clein weaves together the threads of disordered eating, the internet, girlboss feminism, racialized fatphobia, and big pharma. Clein manages to articulate these sharp, emotive insights about the landscape of disordered eating, making connections I couldn't quite articulate on my own. It's a heavy, hurting one, so check CWs and proceed with caution, but I recommend this book highly and deeply.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Medical content, Death, and Vomit
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