There are lists/exercises on which to reflect at the end of most of the chapters. This book is structured almost like a textbook for a class or a seminar. ✨ Content warnings for: graphic anti-fatness, medical trauma, mentions of fat children being removed from families due to their fatness, mentions of racism ✨ Representation: the author takes care to discuss the impacts of anti-fatness on BIPOC fat individuals as well as using trans-inclusive terms. Thank you to the publisher for the review copy! All thoughts are honest and my own. Great book for a lot of people, just way too high-risk/low-reward for me with the impact this author's blunt prose had on my mental health. "You Just Need to Lose Weight" is a valuable resource that has a lot to offer for the right audience - most notably, people who want to learn how to fight anti-fatness from ground zero.Īs someone who has dealt with this in my own life and the lives of my loved ones since I was born, I didn't feel like I was gaining anything except the feeling of being generally miserable because the entire book up to my stopping point was such a painfully honest reminder of how so many people view fat bodies (and even "average" bodies in many countries). Bringing her dozen years of community organizing and training to bear, Gordon shares the rhetorical approaches she and other organizers employ to not only counter these pernicious myths, but to dismantle the anti-fat bias that so often underpin them.Īs conversations about fat acceptance and fat justice continue to grow, “You Just Need to Lose Weight” will be essential to ensure that those conversations are informed, effective, and grounded in both research and history. In “You Just Need to Lose Weight,” Aubrey Gordon equips readers with the facts and figures to reframe myths about fatness in order to dismantle the anti-fat bias ingrained in how we think about and treat fat people. Yet, these myths are as readily debunked as they are pervasive. Fat acceptance “glorifies obesity.” The BMI is an objective measure of size and health. We’re in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Losing weight is easy-calories in, calories out.
The pushback that shows up in conversations about fat justice takes exceedingly predicable form. The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friendequips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat mythsand with tools to take action for fat justice
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