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

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, Fatphobia, and Bullying

Moderate: Medical trauma and Eating disorder

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