Body stories capture a nuanced, interconnected, interactive and
complex telling of our understanding, perception and experience of
and through our bodies. Plenty has been published on body image but
image suggests a static fixed body unmitigated through our social
interactions and varying times and spaces. This book is not a
'how-to' guide for fat confidence. It's not a compendium of fat
suffering. It's simply a collection of narratives about what it's
like to survive in a weight-hating world. It resists the ways that
marginalized bodies are being written and researched and put into
other people's ideas about our existence. The stories in this book
are celebratory and are painful. They look at intersections of race
and queerness; they destabilize womanhood by presenting a range of
possible female embodiments. They explore issues of disability and
madness. The full range of possibilities that are collected here
give a picture of what it means to live in a society with strong
and powerful messages about size, about normalcy, about what a
moral and healthy life and body look like. This book is a snapshot
of its place and time, but these stories remind us that we're here
to stay. The body stories will change but we will keep owning our
own narratives. While story, especially written by women, is often
seen as outside the academic canon, these stories, these creative
offerings, are theory, are research, and are activism. They are
nothing less than the blueprint for liberation. Writing about fat
and about bodies outside of medicalized narratives, without
ignoring the impact of race, sexuality, class, ability, gender,
fashion, appearance and beyond, is radical and rigorous.It is
impossible to think about the future without wishing for
liberation. Liberation can come in many forms. It can mean an
awareness, the ability to confront. The stories in this book
display the ways that liberation isn't a finish line or a thing we
can complete - rather it is a million small actions and
understandings in aid of a renewed and hopeful world.
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