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A review by raincorbyn
Diet Riot: A Fatterpunk Anthology by Nico Bell, E.E.W. Christman, Marsheila Rockwell, K.C. Loesener, Nikki R. Leigh, Kay Hanifen, Judith Baron, Die Booth, Sonora Taylor, Christi Nogle, Stephanie Rabig, Roxie Voorhees
4.0
Something for everyone in this righteous, fun, and much needed collection!
I've gained and lost weight rapidly enough and enough times in my life to notice how differently people treat me at different sizes. And hoo-ee does horror ever have a problem conflating fatness with monstrosity, evil, grossness, or moral weakness. The Big Guy From Maine is especially awful at this.
Enter Diet Riot, an anthology that's varied in stories and mostly consistent in tone, which centers fat people as heroes or villains if they choose; protagonists, love interests, and active participants - all the things we've been shut out of.
The tone overall is pretty light, considering the important subject matter - more popcorn and candy watching a slasher at a drive-in than intimate, heartbreaking, profound etc. Exceptions to this are the stories by editor Nico Bell, and by Roxie Voorhees, and their emotional weight made them two of my favorites. Overall, though, a fun, fist-pumping, righteously affirming, vengeance taking, ass-kicking, second-helping-of-splatter-taking good time, that I hope makes horror people reconsider the place of fatness and fat people. Spoiler: we're right behind you.
I've gained and lost weight rapidly enough and enough times in my life to notice how differently people treat me at different sizes. And hoo-ee does horror ever have a problem conflating fatness with monstrosity, evil, grossness, or moral weakness. The Big Guy From Maine is especially awful at this.
Enter Diet Riot, an anthology that's varied in stories and mostly consistent in tone, which centers fat people as heroes or villains if they choose; protagonists, love interests, and active participants - all the things we've been shut out of.
The tone overall is pretty light, considering the important subject matter - more popcorn and candy watching a slasher at a drive-in than intimate, heartbreaking, profound etc. Exceptions to this are the stories by editor Nico Bell, and by Roxie Voorhees, and their emotional weight made them two of my favorites. Overall, though, a fun, fist-pumping, righteously affirming, vengeance taking, ass-kicking, second-helping-of-splatter-taking good time, that I hope makes horror people reconsider the place of fatness and fat people. Spoiler: we're right behind you.