Name: Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old: A Makeover for Self and Society
Price: 14.70 EUR
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Author: Kimberly Dark
ISBN: 9781849353670

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Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old: A Makeover for Self and Society

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Ak Press

Author

Kimberly Dark

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781849353670

Synopsis "Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old: A Makeover for Self and Society "

“Nothing is more brilliant and juicy to me than a woman stepping fully into her self―mind, body, and spirit, full throttle, without apology. Kimberly Dark has been illuminating the path for a long time. This book is a triumph. This book is a jailbreak from cultural inscriptions meant to keep us locked up, shut up, and conforming.” ―Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and The Book of JoanFat, 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.Kimberly Dark is a writer, professor, and raconteur. She has written award-winning plays, and taught and performed for a wide range of audiences in various countries over the past two decades. She is the author of The Daddies, Love and Errors, and co-editor of the anthology Ways of Being in Teaching.

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