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Hot and Heavy
Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion | Virgie Tovar
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In this fun, fresh, fat-positive anthology, fat activist and sex educator Virgie Tovar brings together voices from an often-marginalized community to talk about and celebrate their lives. "Hot & Heavy" rejects the idea that being thin is best, instead embracing the many fabulous aspects of being fat?building fat-positive spaces, putting together fat-friendly wardrobes, turning societyOCOs rules into personal politics, and creating supportive, inclusive communities. Writers, activists, performers, and poets?including April Flores, Alysia Angel, Charlotte Cooper, Jessica Judd, Emily Anderson, Genne Murphy, and Tigress Osborn?cover everything from fat go-go dancing to queer dating to urban gardening in their essays, exploring their experiences with the word ?fat, OCO pinpointing particular moments that have impacted the way they think and feel about their bodies, and telling the story of how they each became fat revolutionaries. Ground-breaking and long overdue, "Hot & Heavy" is a fierce, sassy, thoughtful, authentic, and joyous collection of stories about unapologetically?and unconditionally?loving the body youOCOre in.
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I loved listening to this book. The book is very empowering to women of all sizes and all backgrounds. I loved that each chapter was a different woman's story, it was never boring. Besides the issue of self acceptance the stories were about what these women had to overcome in many other aspects of their lives. I could relate to a lot of different struggles. I laughed and cried multiple times while listening, I will be buying the hardcover.

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Rereading this while I wait for my on hold library books.