Reviews tagging 'Transphobia'

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

27 reviews

ani_lore's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Fatphobia

Moderate: Body shaming, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

Minor: Rape, Suicide, Transphobia, and Violence

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

Minor: Domestic abuse and Suicide

random19379's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Transphobia and Medical trauma

Minor: Homophobia and Racism

renyoi's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

I read this after listening to Gordon’s podcast, Maintenance Phase, and a lot of the talking points from that seem to be from here. This meant topics were repetitive at points—indeed, they were sometimes repetitive even within the text of the book itself—but still utterly worth knowing and learning about, especially if you are not a fat person. Gordon simplifies issues of feminism and intersectionality to a degree I don’t quite agree with, but her main points—that anti-fat bias plagues every facet of our society and that we need to turn to the lens of justice to rectify that—are necessary and critical for any conscionable person to understand.  I admire this book’s vulnerability and persuasiveness greatly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Eating disorder and Medical trauma

Minor: Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, and Transphobia

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

karcitis's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

bi_n_large's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

corvidaeus's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Chronic illness, Misogyny, Transphobia, Medical content, and Sexual harassment

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

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Racism, and Dysphoria

acejolras's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Eating disorder and Transphobia