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

3 reviews

dragon_s_hoard's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0


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michellegm15's review

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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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suzyreadsbooks's review

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informative fast-paced

4.0


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