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I Won’t Shut Up: Finding Your Voice When the World Tries to Silence You

Highly recommend this powerful anti-racist memoir and call to each of us to find our voices to speak our truths.

Fat Witch Summer

For a light, fat-positive YA fantasy involving magic, a road trip, and friendship, check out Fat Witch Summer by Lizzie Ives

Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

From the Central Park birder who was involved in a viral racist incident in 2020 comes this well-written, insightful, and funny memoir that I highly recommend.

Into the Mist

If you like apocalyptic fiction with a feminist style, with teacher-characters and supernatural elements, I would recommend this one, despite some anti-fat bias.

Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea

Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea (pub. May 30, 2023) by Rita Chang-Eppig is a thoughtful historical novel about life and piracy as experienced by one woman–Shek Yeung–based on the real-life pirate queen who commanded a confederation of pirates in the South China Sea in the early 1800s. As the novel opens, ShekContinue reading “Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea”

Weightless: Making Space for my Resilient Body and Soul

This is a great book of essays dealing with the intersectionality of anti-fatness, racism, misogyny, and chronic illness, written by an astute observer of pop culture.

Hope and Glory

Recommend if you’re interested in a family drama set in London with a Nigerian-British family and a sister who’s just come home after her father has died and her family has fallen apart.

Only This Beautiful Moment

Please read this queer YA contemporary/ historical fiction set in LA and Iran, telling the story of three generations of Iranian men, that also has fat-positive representation.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Beautifully written, full of quotable lines, Zevin has created a story about the art of making games that also deals with grief and the heartache of the world, and how to keep making art through it all.

100th Review–Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

100th Review! Comment on this post to enter a celebratory giveaway of Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture, a can’t-miss book for any parents who have concerns about raising their kids to survive, think for themselves, and thrive, whatever their size, in our current diet culture.