Fat is a feminist issue
Mairi
"Here's to my body, my first home, my only country, the miracle I get to inhabit. Mine. Every day, mine." - Safia Elhillo
It's long past time we explore new language for thinking about of physical selves. We have deep seated cultural ideas of what is a worthy body, a beautiful body, a strong body - we're long overdue challenging those. Here are a few places to start those conversations.
Linked Books

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- Fat Is A Feminist Issue
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- Orbach, Susie

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- Unashamed : Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim
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- Vernon, Leah

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- Fattily Ever After : A Black Fat Girl's Guide to Living Life Unapologetically
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- Yeboah, Stephanie

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- Happy Fat : Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You
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- Hagen, Sofie

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- Fat and Queer : An Anthology of Queer and TRANS Bodies and Lives
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- Morales, Miguel M., Grimm, Bruce Owens, Ferentini, Tiff

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- Fat Gay Men : Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma
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- Whitesel, Jason

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- Love is an Ex-Country
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- Jarrar, Randa

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- The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce
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- Manfredi, Angie

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- Fearing the Black Body : The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
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- Strings, Sabrina

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- Hunger : A Memoir of (My) Body
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- Gay, Roxane

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- Eat Up : Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
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- Tandoh, Ruby

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- Fat, Pretty And Soon To Be Old
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- Dark, Kimberly

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- The Body Is Not an Apology
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- Taylor, Sonya Renee

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- Feminism: A Graphic Guide
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- Jenainati, Cathia, Groves, Judy, Milton, Jem

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- No Big Deal
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- Rutter, Bethany

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- Being in Your Body (Guided Journal): A Journal for Self-Love and Body Positivity
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- Roisin, Fariha, Ramos, Monica

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- Love Your Body
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- Sanders, Jessica, Rossetti, Carol

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- Body Happy Kids
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- Molly Forbes

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- Bodies Are Cool : A picture book celebration of all kinds of bodies
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- Feder, Tyler

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- Fat Activism (Second Edition) : A Radical Social Movement
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- Charlotte Cooper

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- Magic Windows: My Body
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- Ladybird, Burns, Libby