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Fattily Ever After: The Fat, Black Girls' Guide to Living Life Unapologetically
Fattily Ever After: The Fat, Black Girls' Guide to Living Life Unapologetically | Stephanie Yeboah
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"The truth is, body positivity is for white women. White female bodies being safe is paramount to maintaining white supremacy."- Stephanie Yeboah, 2017Twenty-nine year-old plus-size blogger Stephanie Yeboah has experienced racism and fat-phobia throughout her life. From being bullied at school to being objectified and humiliated in her dating life, Stephanie's response to discrimination has always been to change the narrative around body-image and what we see as beautiful. In her debut book, Fattily Ever After, Stephanie Yeboah speaks openly and courageously about her own experience on navigating life as a black, plus-sized woman - telling it how it really is - and how she has managed to find self-acceptance in a world where judgement and discrimination are rife. Featuring stories of every day misogynoir and being fetishized, to navigating the cesspit of online dating and experiencing loneliness, Stephanie shares her thoughts on the treatment of black women throughout history, the marginalisation of black, plus-sized women in the media (even within the body-positivity movement) whilst drawing on wisdom from other black fat liberation champions along the way. Peppered with insightful tips and honest advice and boldly illustrated throughout, this inspiring and powerful book is essential reading for a generation of black, plus-sized women, helping them to live their life openly, unapologetically and with confidence.
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I‘m glad I came back and finished this, but I had such an up-and-down experience reading it. Some of what she shared was brilliant and insightful, and I loved that she shared many voices on issues like eating disorders and treatment by the medical community. Other times, her advice seemed generic, like about dating and dating apps, after she admitted a few pages prior that she had little dating experience. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #pop21 #ByABlogger

Librariana I'd be curious to hear her take on approaching the medical community. 3y
Megabooks @Librariana she talked about, in a commiserating way, problems in the medical system but didn‘t offer solutions/suggestions. I liked that she shared other people‘s stories about it too, but no ideas on better approaches, if this matters. 3y
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This book has swung from...”wow, that‘s a great insight”...to...”you‘re giving dating advice after saying two pages ago you‘ve only been on 11 dates?!”

This was kind of the last straw as far as needing to put it aside. Neither of these conversions is exactly accurate, but one is pretty close and the other is...how can you be using the same conversion factor?!? WTF? Check your math!

britt_brooke I hate these kinds of simple mistakes. So annoying! 3y
Megabooks @britt_brooke yes!! I mean like the basic algebra makes no sense with these conversions even roughly. Everyone‘s phone has a calculator now!! One is less than half the other is more than half. Both can‘t be correct!! (edited) 3y
Hooked_on_books Hopefully this is just a copy-editing error wherein a 5 was transposed for a 6. Still, it‘s sloppy. 3y
Megabooks @Hooked_on_books 50lb is 22.7 kg (or 22.5 if you want to do their rounding), so there‘s really not an excuse for the copy editor not to do the math. Yes, I‘m more used to the conversion in my head, as 50 and 30 lbs are common dog weights, but still, this is a published book. 3y
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This #bookmail is one of the women‘s history month flash sales from Feminist Book Club. Beautiful, full-color pages and great writing so far!

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Pickpick

Refreshing, honest, stubbornly positive and challenging so many stereotypes. What was eye-opening and tragic was the medical section - so many patients mistreated and misdiagnosed because they‘re fat 🙄🤦‍♀️ really shows how stigmas can kill! So many trigger warnings: self-harm, eating disorders, bullying and just overall sh*ttiness (from media etc)
Read for much-needed #bodypositivity and #fatpositivity ❤️

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