2020 Foreword Indie Award Winner (Gold) in the LGBTQ+ Category 2020
Foreword Indie Award Winner (Silver) in the Self-Help Category
"Belonging has been a formative struggle for me. Like most people
with marginalized identities, my experience has taught me that it's
hard to be yourself and feel like you belong in a culture that is
hostile to your existence. That's why my body of work as a
scientist, author, professor, speaker, and advocate for body
liberation always comes back to the impact of belonging or not
belonging. Radical Belonging is my manifesto, helping us heal from
the individual and collective trauma of injustice and support our
transition from a culture of othering to one of belonging." -Lindo
Bacon Too many of us feel alienated from our bodies. This isn't
your personal failing; it means that our culture is failing you. We
are in the midst of a cultural moment. #MeToo. #BlackLivesMatter.
#TransIsBeautiful. #AbleismExists. #EffYourBeautyStandards. Those
of us who don't fit into the "mythical norm" (white, male,
cisgender, able-bodied, slender, Christian, etc.)-which is to say,
most of us-are demanding our basic right: To know that who we are
matters. To belong. Being "othered" and the body shame it spurs is
not "just" a feeling. Being erased and devalued impacts our ability
to regulate our emotions, our relationships with others, our health
and longevity, our finances, our ability to realize dreams, and
whether we will be accepted, loved, or even safe. Radical Belonging
is not a simple self-love treatise. Focusing only on self-love
ignores the important fact that we have negative experiences
because our culture has targeted certain bodies and people for
abuse or alienation. For marginalized people, a focus on self-love
can be a spoonful of sugar that makes the oppression go down. This
groundbreaking book goes further, helping us to manage the
challenges that stem from oppression and moving beyond self-love
and into belonging. With Lindo Bacon's signature blend of science
and storytelling, Radical Belonging addresses the political,
sociological, psychological and biological underpinnings of your
experiences, helping you understand that the alienation and pain
you are experiencing is not personal, but human. The problem is in
injustice, not you as an individual. So many of us feel wounded by
a culture that has alienated us from our bodies and divided us from
each other. Radical Belonging provides strategies to reckon with
the trauma of injustice; reclaim yourself, body and soul; and
rewire your nervous system to better cope within an unjust world.
It also provides strategies to help us all provide refuge for one
another and create a culture of equity and empathy, one that
respects, includes, and benefits from all its diverse peoples.
Whether you are transgender, queer, Black, Indigenous or a Person
of Color, disabled, old, or fat-or your more closely resemble the
"mythical norm"-Radical Belonging is your guidebook for creating a
world where all bodies are valued and all of us belong-and for
coping with this one, until we make that new world a reality.
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