Reviews tagging 'Racism'

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

20 reviews

toffishay's review

challenging emotional informative fast-paced

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

Moderate: Racism, Violence, Sexism, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Self harm, Transphobia, Medical content, Bullying, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, and Body shaming

karcitis's review

dark emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, and Bullying

Moderate: Sexual violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Medical content, Violence, Rape, Racism, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Ableism

Minor: Transphobia, Classism, Chronic illness, Cancer, Abortion, Pregnancy, Biphobia, Terminal illness, Lesbophobia, and Homophobia

bi_n_large's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Medical content, Fatphobia, Bullying, Classism, Medical trauma, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Transphobia, and Violence

volcanogirl's review

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Fatphobia

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

Minor: Racism

foreverinastory's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Everyone needs to read this!!! Especially if you are not fat.

CWs: Fatphobia, body shaming, medical trauma, eating disorder, medical content, sexual harassment, bullying, ableism, misogyny, hate crime, sexual violence, threats of rape, sexism, emotional abuse, violence, gaslighting, death, transphobia/transmisia, classism. Moderate: queerphobia/queermisia, racism, dysphoria, chronic illness, cancer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Ableism, Misogyny, Rape, Death, Medical trauma, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Sexual violence, Bullying, Violence, Gaslighting, and Classism

Moderate: Racism, Dysphoria, Chronic illness, and Cancer

montyroz's review

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Violence, Sexual assault, Racism, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Medical content, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, and Bullying

michellegm15's review

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

This book is an extremely well written combination of stories, education, and a call to action. The author really shines telling her own stories and those of other fat people. Frankly, many were heartbreaking and illuminating, arousing compassion as she describes the cruelty and dehumanization so often shown to fat people. She also ropes in the sort of statistics and research that makes her points practically bulletproof. Finally, she clearly describes the ways in which fat people are denied rights and access and the specific things that we collectively need to change in order to shift a fatphobic world. Some of the social justice issues include work discrimination, housing discrimination, being kicked off airline seats without refunds, sexual violence, reduced access to public spaces due to lack of accommodations, and medical discrimination that often denies fat people the right to medical care due to health care providers assuming all symptoms fat people have are due to their weight. This can result in dangerous medical neglect for prolonged periods of time. It is appalling that fat people are so often denied access, respect, and humanity and there are a lot of changes that need to happen. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Ableism, and Body shaming

Moderate: Eating disorder, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

Minor: Police brutality

skudiklier's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I regularly read books that I think everyone should read, but this is one I know I'll be recommending for a long, long time, to as many people as I can. I've followed Aubrey Gordon's work for years, and have been convinced of her positions for a while now, but this book lays out everything in such a clear, damning way. This book answers the questions I haven't known how to when having arguments with other straight-size people about anti-fat bias, and addresses everything you may think to ask about. This book should be required reading for everyone, but *especially* those going into the medical field in any way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Violence, Transphobia, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Sexism

Moderate: Rape and Sexual content

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Excrement, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Suicide, and Stalking

suzyreadsbooks's review

informative fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Medical content, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

mikeebeth's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Racism and Homophobia