A review by lizshayne
What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat by Aubrey Gordon

challenging hopeful informative inspiring

5.0

This book was...beautiful and hard and complicated and really vital reading in the process of making inroads into our thin-focused, diet-obsessed, weight-is-not-a-good-proxy-for-health dumpster fire of a culture.
The early chapters made me want to scream. The stories Gordon told made me want to weep. (I expected them and I even knew some of them, but when someone tells the story of their trauma, we SHOULD feel it). The final chapter made me want to sing.
My one comment is that the book is not read by the author and, since I'm used to listening to her on her podcast, I kept thinking "Oh, this sounds like something Aubrey Gordon would say, I wonder if she...oh, right."