A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
AN INDIE BESTSELLER
"One of the great thinkers of our generation . . . I feel fresher and
smarter and happier for sitting down with her."--Jameela Jamil, iWeigh
Podcast
The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat
Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and
with tools to take action for fat justice
The pushback that shows up in conversations about fat justice takes
exceedingly predicable form. Losing weight is easy--calories in,
calories out. Fat people are unhealthy. We're in the midst of an obesity
epidemic. Fat acceptance "glorifies obesity." The BMI is an objective
measure of size and health. Yet, these myths are as readily debunked as
they are pervasive.
In "You Just Need to Lose Weight," Aubrey Gordon equips readers with
the facts and figures to reframe myths about fatness in order to
dismantle the anti-fat bias ingrained in how we think about and treat
fat people. Bringing her dozen years of community organizing and
training to bear, Gordon shares the rhetorical approaches she and other
organizers employ to not only counter these pernicious myths, but to
dismantle the anti-fat bias that so often underpin them.
As conversations about fat acceptance and fat justice continue to grow,
"You Just Need to Lose Weight" will be essential to ensure that those
conversations are informed, effective, and grounded in both research and
history.
