What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat

by Aubrey Gordon

• ISBN10: 1662053215
• ISBN13: 9781662053214
• Publish Date: 17 November 2020
• Publish Status: Forthcoming
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Vision Audiobooks on Dreamscape Audio
• Format: Audiobook (MP3)
• Language: English

Reviews

[mrs_mander_reads]

This book was so good in the worst way. Gordon is able to thoughtfully articulate some of the things I've dealt with my entire life - and all because I'm heavy. Definitely recommend to any person who has experienced prejudice, shame, and discrimination based on their weight, and I also recommend to folx who have heavier people in their life. It's important to understand what life feels like for these people.

[scarr]

We need intersectional fat activism NOW. Wonderful and necessary book. Anyone going into healthcare should be required to read this book. Also, anyone in media should absolutely read this book.

I was average size for 20+ years and then I was fat for about 10 years. I am, again, average sized. I used to refer to my heavier days as "my fat decade". I guess I felt like it was important to reassure folks that I was no longer that person, that it was a decade not worth remembering. That my existence during this time was better left unaccounted for. It is so strange that I consider my larger-body years as like a mistake or a bad place when so many wonderful things happened during that time: I began a relationship with my husband, I was married, I moved to different parts of the country and my fur babies came into my life. It's weird how nothing is really good unless you're skinny. Smaller. More toned. I didn't come up with this on my own, it was drilled into me by a media landscape that is violently anti-fat (anti-anything that is not THIN af).

Anyway - EVERYONE!!! DO BETTER! Hold people, industries, organizations, etc etc accountable.