Fat, Pretty and Soon to Be Old
ISBN-13: 9781849353670
Contributor(s): Kimberly Dark
Subjects: Feminism
Publisher: Ak Press
Publisher Imprint: Ak Press
Publication Date: 05-12-2019
Format: Paperback
Availability: In stock
£12.00
About the book
Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old is a moving, funny, and startlingly frank collection of personal essays about what it means to look a certain way. Or rather, certain ways. Navigating Kimberly Dark's experience of being fat since childhood as well as queer, white-privileged, a gender-confirming 'girl with a pretty face,' active then disabled, and inevitably aging each piece blends storytelling and social analysis to deftly coax readers into a deeper understanding of how appearance privilege (and stigma) function in everyday life and how the architecture of this social world constrains us. At the same time, she provides a blueprint for how each of us can build a more just social world, one interaction at a time. Includes an afterword by Health at Every Size expert Linda Bacon.