Spark your own or others’ discussion of the novel FATROPOLIS with a free PDF Book Discussion Guide containing questions as well as links to the author’s website and a conversation recorded with her upon the book’s publication last fall.
Social work, social justice & Health at Every Size.
Ragen Chastain addresses some of the many problems with Samoan airline charging passengers by the pound.
Bonnie Shapbell provides a practical guide to re-creating life after devastating loss in the newest book from Pearlsong Press.
Newest book from Pearlsong Press — rebuilding life after devastating loss.
Marilyn Wann: fat activist and author of FAT!SO?
This woman is radically awesome.
It’s not the fat that kills us. It’s the fat hatred ….
When you reclaim the word ‘Fat,’ no one can use it against you ever again.
~ Marilyn Wann
The only thing that anyone can diagnose, with any certainty, by looking at a fat person, is their own level of stereotype and prejudice toward fat people.
I’m watching this super amazing lecture by Marilyn Wann, the author of Fat!So?: Because You Don’t Have to Apologize for Your Size! It’s super amazing, so I’ll post it here in case you wanna watch it.
