Want to unlearn fatphobia? Read these 7 books

22 May

We all know that we live in a deeply fatphobic society. Netflix's recent America’s Next Top Model documentary took us back to the early 2000s when it was considered appropriate to scold young, impressionable women for not having perfectly flat stomachs, with Tyra Banks telling one of the already very thin contestants that she should “watch what she eats”. It’s not an overstatement to say that body positivity didn’t really exist in the 2000s. But in the 2010s, we witnessed what I would now describe as a flawed but radical movement towards body positivity. This movement was not perfect, as Lindsay King-Miller wrote for Bitch in 2014: “Today’s body positivity focuses too much on affirming beauty and not enough on deconstructing its...

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6 Aug

Unshrinking: how you can detox from fatphobia

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Unshrinking: how you can detox from fatphobia

In her recent book Unshrinking, Kate Manne explores the systemic nature of fatphobia and the way we are able to unlearn the damaging body standards we're taught from a young age Prior to now week, five per cent of teenage girls have used a harmful weight-loss product with out a prescription from a health care provider. That’s one in 20. We live in a society that places a major amount of value on thinness, and it’s clear the pressure to stick to this ideal starts young. Fatphobia is present in nearly every aspect of our culture, from medical bias around weight to body shaming in promoting. And if it seems, on the surface,...

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20 Mar

Unshrinking: tips on how to detox from fatphobia

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In her recent book Unshrinking, Kate Manne explores the systemic nature of fatphobia and the way we are able to unlearn the damaging body standards we're taught from a young age Previously week, five per cent of teenage girls have used a harmful weight-loss product and not using a prescription from a physician. That’s one in 20. We live in a society that places a major amount of value on thinness, and it’s clear the pressure to stick to this ideal starts young. Fatphobia is present in nearly every aspect of our culture, from medical bias around weight to body shaming in promoting. And if it seems, on the surface, like there was...

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