Fat Liberation Reading Challenge 2023 - hosted by arsenic_

Read a non-fiction book about fat liberation, activism, and/or history
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Fat Girls Hiking: An Inclusive Guide to Getting Outdoors at Any Size or Ability by Summer Michaud-Skog

Fat Girls Hiking: An Inclusive Guide to Getting Outdoors at Any Size or Ability

Summer Michaud-Skog

250 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction health travel informative inspiring lighthearted medium-paced
Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul by Evette Dionne

Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul

Evette Dionne

272 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun Harrison

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

Da’Shaun Harrison

109 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ politics race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You by Sofie Hagen

Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You

Sofie Hagen

336 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir self help funny reflective slow-paced
“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon

“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

Aubrey Gordon

228 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction essays health challenging informative medium-paced
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

Sonya Renee Taylor

160 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction feminism health self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like by Rebecca Paley, Ashley Graham

A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like

Rebecca Paley, Ashley Graham

224 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography design memoir emotional medium-paced
What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat by Aubrey Gordon

What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat

Aubrey Gordon

197 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Fat Studies Reader by Marilyn Wann, Charlotte Cooper, Sondra Solovay, Esther D. Rothblum

The Fat Studies Reader

Marilyn Wann, Charlotte Cooper, Sondra Solovay, Esther D. Rothblum

365 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction feminism challenging informative slow-paced
Being Fat: Women, Weight, and Feminist Activism in Canada by Jenny Ellison

Being Fat: Women, Weight, and Feminist Activism in Canada

Jenny Ellison

296 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative medium-paced