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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781952177743
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2023
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Description:
In this disarming and candid memoir, cultural critic Clarkisha Kent unpacks the kind of compounded problems you face when you™re a fat, Black, queer woman in a society obsessed with heteronormativity.
There was no easy way for Kent to navigate personal discovery and self-love. As a dark-skinned, second-generation American facing a myriad of mental health issues and intergenerational trauma, at times Kent™s body felt like a cosmic punishment. In the face of body dysmorphia, homophobia, anti-Blackness, and respectability politics, the pursuit of śhigh self-esteemť seemed oxymoronic
Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto is a humorous, at times tragic, memoir that follows Kent on her journey to realizing that her body is a gift to be grown into, that sometimes family doesn™t always mean home, and how even ill-fated bisexual romances could free her from gender essentialism. Perfect for readers of Keah Brown™s The Pretty One, Alida Nugent™s You Don™t Have to Like Me, and Stephanie Yeboah™s Fattily Ever AfterIt stresses the importance of addressing the violence scored upon our minds and our bodies, and how we might begin the difficult”but joyful”work of setting ourselves free.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781952177743
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2023
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Description:
In this disarming and candid memoir, cultural critic Clarkisha Kent unpacks the kind of compounded problems you face when you™re a fat, Black, queer woman in a society obsessed with heteronormativity.
There was no easy way for Kent to navigate personal discovery and self-love. As a dark-skinned, second-generation American facing a myriad of mental health issues and intergenerational trauma, at times Kent™s body felt like a cosmic punishment. In the face of body dysmorphia, homophobia, anti-Blackness, and respectability politics, the pursuit of śhigh self-esteemť seemed oxymoronic
Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto is a humorous, at times tragic, memoir that follows Kent on her journey to realizing that her body is a gift to be grown into, that sometimes family doesn™t always mean home, and how even ill-fated bisexual romances could free her from gender essentialism. Perfect for readers of Keah Brown™s The Pretty One, Alida Nugent™s You Don™t Have to Like Me, and Stephanie Yeboah™s Fattily Ever AfterIt stresses the importance of addressing the violence scored upon our minds and our bodies, and how we might begin the difficult”but joyful”work of setting ourselves free.