Blessed are the Fat

If you’re completely new to fat liberation – welcome! We’re all on a learning journey together! Below are some books that I found helpful when beginning. Some are more academic and others are more mainstream. Take a look and see what can speak to you where you are.

• “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon
• What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
• Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement by Charlotte Cooper
• Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
• The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
• The Fat Studies Reader edited by Esther Rothblum and Sondra Solovay

On the Christian and theology side…

• Fat Church: Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation by Anastasia Kidd
• The Fat Jesus: Feminist Explorations in Boundaries and Transgressions by Lisa Isherwood
• My Body Is Not a Prayer Request: Disability Justice in the Church by Amy Kenny