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What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

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challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0


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maryellen's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad

5.0

This book is heartbreaking, but so, so important. 

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toffishay's review

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4.0

A really vulnerable and informative memoir/non-fiction exploration of anti-fat bias in modern Western society, all the legal, social, emotional, interpersonal, and intrapersonal challenges of an obsession with thinness, and what can be done to change the pervasiveness of this issue. This is a quick read and provides awesome resources to learn more. The language and style of prose is also quite lyrical and beautiful, but gets a little repetitive in places with the same phrasing used throughout. Overall, an awesome read.

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challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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unsuccessfulbookclub's review

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challenging emotional hopeful informative sad slow-paced

5.0

I could write pages and pages of my thoughts on this book but they all boil down to this one:

➡️ Everyone should read this. ⬅️

Aubrey Gordon is brilliant, engaging, emotionally vulnerable and inspiring. In 165 pages she gives an incredibly well-researched yet personal account of the costs of anti-fatness through an intersectional lens. And like every stain on American culture, the costs of anti-fatness are high and affect all of us.

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

 - WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT is a must read. I know, I don't like calling things "must read" either but this is truly an exception. I've never read an extended work like this on the urgent need for more (and more inclusive) activism and justice for fat people.
- Everything from fatcalling to open bias from healthcare providers is covered in this book. Gordon makes it absolutely clear how being fat influences everything she does and how virtually every single person interacts with her, usually not in a positive way.
- Anti-fat bias is so ingrained in our culture (and getting worse, according to this book), and Gordon lays out the multifaceted approach we need to take to uproot it and make life accepting and accessible for all bodies. 

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