Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

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

42 reviews

kylieqrada's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

Purely perfection. Up there with the very best fat activist texts I've read. Aubrey Gordon calls her particular type of activism "fat justice," which I think is so poignant. There are countless quotes I could include to entice you to read this book, as Aubrey's writing is simply stunning. This book is truly intersectional and a much-needed analysis of systemic fatphobia.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Medical trauma, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Sexual assault, Eating disorder, and Sexual harassment

maryellen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad

5.0

This book is heartbreaking, but so, so important. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Medical trauma, Eating disorder, Cancer, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Ableism, and Classism

whittenholmes's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape

Minor: Eating disorder

redefiningrachel's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Ableism, Bullying, Racism, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Medical trauma, and Misogyny

Moderate: Sexual violence, Chronic illness, Classism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Abortion and Pregnancy

tmchopra's review against another edition

challenging informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, Mental illness, Homophobia, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Sexual violence, Sexism, Misogyny, and Sexual harassment

coralcrab77's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

Moderate: Violence, Medical trauma, and Sexual assault

notartgarfunkel's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Medical trauma

Moderate: Racism, Transphobia, Sexual harassment, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Bullying

Minor: Domestic abuse and Suicide

toffishay's review against another edition

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 against another edition

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

e_flah's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat is a powerful book that should be required reading. Gordon's blend of personal narrative with research made for a deeply compelling read. This book does an excellent job giving readers the tools they need to begin unpacking anti-fat attitudes and diet culture in their own lives. I know What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat is a book I will be revisiting over and over again.

"Diet culture hinges on all of us seeking to become thin, thinner, thinnest, engaged in an endless quest to shrink ourselves at all costs."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Eating disorder