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A review by heykellyjensen
Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass by Jes Baker
What I loved most about this were the sincere moments of vulnerability and authenticity. Jes is someone I could listen to -- and she narrates the audio, which is fantastic -- because she doesn't have all the answers. She's making mistakes and messing up and is herself messy. But that's who she is and she embraces it.
I was especially moved by the PCOS chapter, and I really am onboard with her beliefs about body liberation vs. body love. As someone who has always been fat but who has also lost a significant amount of weight in the last year and is no longer "plus size," I struggle with where I fit into the movement of body and fat acceptance. It was nice to be reminded that when labels are placed upon people who were, then weren't, within a certain status, that's as much about shaming and blaming as anything. The problem is diet culture and, ultimately, capitalism. It's not the individual who makes choices about how they operate and live in their bodies.
I was especially moved by the PCOS chapter, and I really am onboard with her beliefs about body liberation vs. body love. As someone who has always been fat but who has also lost a significant amount of weight in the last year and is no longer "plus size," I struggle with where I fit into the movement of body and fat acceptance. It was nice to be reminded that when labels are placed upon people who were, then weren't, within a certain status, that's as much about shaming and blaming as anything. The problem is diet culture and, ultimately, capitalism. It's not the individual who makes choices about how they operate and live in their bodies.