num_pages: 160
description: Fat Pretty and Soon to be Old is a moving funny and startlingly frank collection of personal essays about what it means to look a certain way. Or rather certain ways. Navigating Kimberly Darks experience of being fat since childhoodas well as queer white-privileged a gender-confirming girl with a pretty face active then disabled and inevitably agingeach piece blends storytelling and social analysis to deftly coax readers into a deeper understanding of how appearance privilege (and stigma) function in everyday life and how the architecture of this social world constrains us. At the same time she provides a blueprint for how each of us can build a more just social world one interaction at a time. Includes an afterword by Health at Every Size expert Linda Bacon.
language: English
title: Fat, Pretty and Soon to Be Old
publisher: AK Press