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

Excellent. Weaves memoir into discussions of research, policy and sociology and makes an inarguable case for the civil rights of fat people. Explores the toxicity of "health" concern, "wellness" and the compromised "body positivity" movement, shares the research that the toxic stress of discrimination is ACTUALLY detrimental to physical health, while size & health have little provable causation. And all in Aubrey's voice! (Written voice; audiobook is read by someone else, which I'll admit I was bummed about.) If you're not familiar with @YrFatFriend on social, follow her for truth nuggets, and listen to Maintenance Phase for more fun debunking of "wellness" culture. Until we stop ascribing morality levels to types of food ("I'm being GOOD and cannot eat that") and using the BMI (DEBUNKED) to categorize and treat individuals, we need books like this to show us the light and give us work to do.