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

De : Aubrey Gordon
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From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people.

Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people’s experiences. Unlike the recent wave of memoirs and quasi self-help books that encourage readers to love and accept themselves, Gordon pushes the discussion further towards authentic fat activism, which includes ending legal weight discrimination, giving equal access to health care for large people, increased access to public spaces, and ending anti-fat violence. As she argues, “I did not come to body positivity for self-esteem. I came to it for social justice.”

By sharing her experiences as well as those of others—from smaller fat to very fat people—she concludes that to be fat in our society is to be seen as an undeniable failure, unlovable, unforgivable, and morally condemnable. Fatness is an open invitation for others to express disgust, fear, and insidious concern. To be fat is to be denied humanity and empathy. Studies show that fat survivors of sexual assault are less likely to be believed and less likely than their thin counterparts to report various crimes; 27% of very fat women and 13% of very fat men attempt suicide; over 50% of doctors describe their fat patients as “awkward, unattractive, ugly and noncompliant”; and in 48 states, it’s legal—even routine—to deny employment because of an applicant’s size.

Advancing fat justice and changing prejudicial structures and attitudes will require work from all people. What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat is a crucial tool to create a tectonic shift in the way we see, talk about, and treat our bodies, fat and thin alike.
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    Aubrey Gordon's writing intertwines autobiographical threads with a social justice perspective & a lot of research! It's been a long time since I read such a complete book on fat justice or similar topics. Redundancy would be the only min point: It sometimes sounds too much like a collection of essays that could be more thoroughly woven together. On the other side, it's worth repeating many elements regarding anti-fat hate that are otherwise overlooked. It didn't affect my overall listening experience and engagement with the audiobook. I loved the reader's style too: warm, nice tempo, engaged in the story.
    As a fat person who endures anti-fatness daily, I must also warn it can be very hard to listen to this book. As a witness of our oppression, it's also a reminder of many traumatic experiences we go through.

    A must-read/listen on fat justice

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