Review by quasinaut - What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat

A review by quasinaut
What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat by Aubrey Gordon

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.25

An important book combining statistics and research with stories from Aubrey Gordon's and other fat folks' actual experiences living in a fatphobic world. At times, it was repetitive - I suspected that some examples or stories were intentionally reused knowing that some people might only encounter one chapter or section. But having read the whole book, I found that there were individual passages that were devastatingly, beautifully written but sometimes the larger structure or flow didn't quite work.

All in all, an eye-opening introduction to systemic fat oppression for anyone who still thinks fat people, not fatphobia, are the problem.

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A review by quasinaut What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat by Aubrey Gordon

A review by quasinaut
What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat by Aubrey Gordon