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Landwhale : on turning insults into nicknames, why body image is hard, and how diets can kiss my ass / Jes Baker.

by Baker, Jes, author.

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New York, NY : Seal Press, 2018.

Baker, Jes -- Health.

Overweight persons -- Biography.

Overweight women -- Biography.

9781580056816 (pbk.) :

1580056814 (pbk.)

xii, 253 pages ; 21 cm

"In Landwhale, Jes Baker delves into her coming-of-age--including her 6 ways to hate your body (#2: Worship teen periodicals), her top tactics for reframing the malicious animal comparisons hurled repeatedly at fat women (see "Elephant: Everyone knows elephants are basically the coolest animals ever. Try again."), and as a bonus, Jes answers the Internet's most pressing question of all time: "So, have you ever thought about dieting?" With biting wit and arresting vulnerability, Baker also covers living with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and feeling like a hobbit, fat sex, Harry Potter roller coasters, the problematic effects of online heroism, and the complicated conversation around weight-loss surgery. For anyone who grew up as a fat kid (or didn't, for that matter), who has traveled while fat, or who has simply lived in a fat body, Landwhale is a truthful and powerful account of the unforgiving ways our culture treats fatness--and how to live happily and freely anyway."--Page [4] of cover.

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