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paige71's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
hbrxnnxmxn's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.5
This book was very thought provoking and a great starting point for radical self love. Sonya Renee Taylor does an excellent job at sharing personal anecdotes, stories from others, academic research, and theoretical examples. Her intersectional approach creates points of reflection not just for our own body positivity, but for the many ways that having bodies and what those bodies look like affect us, our communities, and the world at large. The audiobook was incredibly vibrant and I love that the author narrated. If you are doing audiobook I almost recommend physical book also because there are things I feel I missed or didn’t fully sink in as a result. Regardless, there were many takeaways for me!
youngthespian42's review against another edition
2.0
This book just didn’t hit for me the way I wanted to. The opening had some great framing and did challenge my perception of my body and bodies in general. “You don’t have less value if you’re not healthy” and “different bodies have different achievable levels of health” are really good messages.
When the text moved out of self love and empowerment to oppression and “body terrorism” the book really lost me. I believe in systematic racism and want a world outside of this. Encapsulating history of racial repression, treatment of LGBT+, and the disability community as “body terrorism” felt a little reaching if not offensive. I believe everyone should have the freedom to present and identify how they want but equating chairs not designed for different bodies to Asian Immigration Quotas is pretty out of context. Reminded me of the Right treating mask mandates like it was Nazi Germany.
After the ideology dump the actual “practice” section are pretty bare bones basic tips you will find in most self help books. My work in therapy has done a lot more than this book had offer. I wanted to approach “fat liberation” with an open mind instead of just reacting to social media, but having read this: it ain’t it for me.
When the text moved out of self love and empowerment to oppression and “body terrorism” the book really lost me. I believe in systematic racism and want a world outside of this. Encapsulating history of racial repression, treatment of LGBT+, and the disability community as “body terrorism” felt a little reaching if not offensive. I believe everyone should have the freedom to present and identify how they want but equating chairs not designed for different bodies to Asian Immigration Quotas is pretty out of context. Reminded me of the Right treating mask mandates like it was Nazi Germany.
After the ideology dump the actual “practice” section are pretty bare bones basic tips you will find in most self help books. My work in therapy has done a lot more than this book had offer. I wanted to approach “fat liberation” with an open mind instead of just reacting to social media, but having read this: it ain’t it for me.
frankie_vega's review against another edition
5.0
Lessons learned from this book: to embody and spread radical self love, we must let go of archaic and harmful hierarchies that privilege white, Cis, straight, able bodied people. It takes lots of work to dismantle these hierarchies. The hard work starts with small conversations. Disturbing the status quo will open up space for reimagining a world where all bodies are liberated.
All bodies are meant to be. And all bodies are magical.
This book reminds me to question where my internalized fatphobia, homophobia, transphobia, racism, ableism, ext. come from and how I can heal these wounds.
All bodies are meant to be. And all bodies are magical.
This book reminds me to question where my internalized fatphobia, homophobia, transphobia, racism, ableism, ext. come from and how I can heal these wounds.
roxymaybe's review against another edition
3.0
Great message. Didn't love the writing. Feels like a long blog post from 2012. I'm definitely not the target audience for this, but I bet it really is radical for people who've never been on tumblr.
jennifertijssen's review against another edition
3.0
Goed, maar niet zo goed als ik verwacht had na de reviews. Veel herhaling van al eerder gehoorde principes, maar dat ligt natuurlijk niet per se aan de schrijver. Jammer dat de echte praktische tips alleen tegen betaling te krijgen zijn in het werkboek.