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

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

This is both a meticulously researched account of anti-fatness in its many forms and an unflinching memoir of Gordon's experiences of a lifetime experiencing anti-fatness. For those well-versed in the language of the body justice and fat liberation movements, this book provides a searing firsthand account that is essential reading for straight-sized readers. Impressively, Gordon is thorough in the scope of her research, yet she delivers her findings concisely and compellingly. She presents, in no uncertain terms, the reality that many "body positive" straight-sized people do not want to hear: that internal body image struggles are not equivalent to tangible discrimination and oppression in the external world. 
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