Body Liberation Toolkit
WHAT TO READ: Books & Articles
Bacon, Linda and Lucy Aphramor, L. 2014. Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight. BenBella Books.
Baker, Jes. 2015. Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living. Seal Press.
Brown, Harriet. 2015. Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession With Weight-and What We Can Do About It. Da Capo Press.
Campos, Paul. 2004. The Obesity Myth: Why America’s Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health. Gotham Books.
Cooper, Charlotte. 2016. Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement. HammerOn Press.
Cottom, Tressie McMillan. 2019. Thick: And Other Essays. The New Press.
Cox, Joy A. 2020. Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own. North Atlantic Books.
Dooner, Caroline. 2019. The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy. Harper Wave.
Farrell, Amy E. 2011. Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture. New York University Press.
Gay, Roxane. 2017. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. HarperCollins.
Gordon, Aubrey. 2020. What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat. Beacon Press.
Hagen, Sophie. 2019. Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World that Wants to Shrink You. Fourth Estate.
Harrison, Christy. 2019. Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Though Intuitive Eating. Little Brown Spark.
Kinzel, Lesley. 2012. Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body. The Feminist Press.
Kite, Lexie and Lindsay Kite. 2020. More than a Body: Your Body is an Instrument, Not an Ornament. Harvest.
Laymon, Kiese. Heavy: An American Memoir. Scribner.
Miller, Kelsey. 2016. Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life. Grand Central Publishing.
Oliver, J. Eric. 2006. Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America’s Obesity Epidemic. Oxford University Press.
Saguy, Abigail C. 2013. What’s Wrong with Fat? Oxford University Press.
Strings, Sabrina. 2019. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia. NYU Press.
Taylor, Nicole. 2016. Schooled on Fat: What Teens Tell Us About Gender, Body Image, and Obesity. Routledge.
Taylor, Sonya Renee. 2018. The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
Thomas, Laura. 2019. Just Eat It: How Intuitive Eating Can Help You Get Your Shit Together Around Food. Bluebird.
Tovar, Virgie. 2018. You Have the Right to Remain Fat. Feminist Press.
Wann, Marilyn. 1998. Fat!So? Because You Don’t Have to Apologize for Your Size. Ten Speed Press.
West, Lindy. 2016. Shrill. Hachette.
WHAT TO LISTEN TO & WHO TO FOLLOW: Podcasts, Websites, and Creators
Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH)
Ellise Smith at Plus Size Magic Radio and Fatness Fiction
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison