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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.
Sisterhood is oft elusive, if not a misunderstood concept. Despite
all the factors that could impede the development, elevation, and
maintenance of sistering relationships, Black women continue to
acknowledge the value of sisterhoods. Sistering offers a lifeline
of support and validation. Holding membership in an empowering
woman-centered relationship is a special kind of privilege. The
authors in this volume contest any assumption that sisterhood is
limited to blood relationships and physical proximity. In this
volume, we consider sisterhood simultaneously as paradigm and
praxis. We approach Sisterhood as Paradigm and attempt to parse out
the nature of Sisterhood as it is understood in Black communities
in the United States. We hope to convey an organized set of ideas
about "sisterhood" to create sisterhood as a model of interaction
or way of being with one another, specifically among Black women.
We consider how sisterhood could be enacted as practice. Using
Sisterhood as a framework, we explore Sisterhood as Peer Support,
examining how Black women provide support to peers in academic and
professional settings. We embark on a provision of applied
exemplars of sistering in emerging digital media in Digital
Sisterhood.
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