Book HackYou Just Need to Lose WeightBy Aubrey Gordon
In a Nutshell
Author and activist Aubrey Gordon dispels 19 misconceptions about fat people and explains how anti-fatness leads to oppression.
Favorite Quote
It took six years for a doctor to properly diagnose her bloody coughing fits not as a natural outcome of her fatness but as lung cancer … 'A diagnosis five years prior could've saved my lung.'
Aubrey Gordon quoting Rebecca Hiles in Cosmopolitan
Introduction
Do you make assumptions about fat people? Research shows that people tend to categorize fat individuals negatively, believing they are a certain type of person who lives a certain lifestyle.
Aubrey Gordon is an author, organizer, and fat activist. Gordon co-hosts the Maintenance Phase podcast, on which she deconstructs misleading wellness and weight-loss trends.
In You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People, Gordon uses both quantitative and qualitative research to debunk 19 stigmatizing myths about the health, appearance, backgrounds, and lifestyle choices of fat people.
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