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Hey, folks. Would you all be interested in me tweeting out a list of books (somewhere between 20-25) for a fat studies summer reading list? I'm revisiting some for the summer & figure we could make this a collective thing.
21 votes in 4 minutes, all yes and not a single no. We love that. Let's start the list!
(note: I've read majority of these already and am just revisiting them. I haven't read them all; this'll be my first time. Some of them are academic.)
(note: I've read majority of these already and am just revisiting them. I haven't read them all; this'll be my first time. Some of them are academic.)
1. Killer Fat: Media, Medicine, and Morals in the American "Obesity Epidemic" - Natalie Boero
2. Heavy: An American Memoir - Kiese Laymon
3. The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love - Sonya Renee Taylor
4. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins If Fat Phobia - Sabrina Strings
5. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - Roxane Gay
6. The Fat Studies Reader
This is a book full of SO many essays and articles written by folks with so many varying experiences. Absolutely a Fat Studies 101, I think, and worth constantly revisiting. A must have.
This is a book full of SO many essays and articles written by folks with so many varying experiences. Absolutely a Fat Studies 101, I think, and worth constantly revisiting. A must have.
7. Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America's Obesity Epidemic - J. Eric Oliver
(I should note: many, if not most, of these books are PDFs online. So you may not necessarily have to buy them all! I just prefer physical copies of books and visuals, hence the pictures of the covers)
8. Queering Fat Embodiment
Not a book, but a part of Queering Fat Embodiment that I want to pull out:
Chubby boys with strap-ons: Queering Fat transmasculine embodiment.
Chubby boys with strap-ons: Queering Fat transmasculine embodiment.
9. Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women I'm Fat Oppression
10. Revolting Bodies? The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity - Kathleen Lebesco
11. Historicizing Fat in Anglo-American Culture - Elena Levy-Navarro
12. The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health - Paul Campos
13. Thick: And Other Essays - Tressie McMillan Cottom
14. The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies - Andrea Elizabeth Shaw
15. we are never meeting in real life: essays by Samantha Irby
16. Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You - Sofie Hagen
17. Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight—and What We Can Do about It - Harriet Brown
18. Fat Shame: Stigma and the Body in American Culture - Amy Erdman Farrell
19. Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma - Jason Whitesel
20. Shameful Bodies: Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement - Michelle Mary Lelwica
21. Fat Boys: A Slim Book - Sander L. Gilman
22. Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity - Sander L. Gilman
23. Tipping the Scales of Justice: Fighting Weight-Based Discrimination - Sondra Solovay
Okay, that's it for now. Lemme know if you all do read one or some of these books over the summer. I'd love to discuss them with you! I hope this helps folks on their journey to (further) developing a fat politic. 
24. I was doing more research and found this (which I'm now excited about reading). Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement - Charlotte Cooper
