Not sorry
By: Jenny Bruso
Series: Not sorry
Publisher: Jenny San Diego
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Portland, OR
Language: eng
Subjects: Transphobia; Bisexual women; Body image in women; Political activists; Overweight women
Description: Fat, queer femme Jenny Bruso compiles her favorite pieces from the first two zines she created: Not Sorry #1 and #2. Her work touches on a wide range of subjects, from fatphobia, to racism, to transphobia, to the politics of sex work, and more. At the end of some pieces, Bruso includes her commentary and reflections on the ways her opinions have changed in the years since writing them. In one piece, Bruso delivers her scathing opinion on the fatphobic movie Shallow Hal. In another, she writes about the positive and negative aspects of working at a sex shop; while she loved helping female customers discover toys and porn that would best fulfill their desires, she was constantly harrassed and degraded by the largely male client base. Bruso also offers her thoughts on the porn punk site Suicide Girls; despite claiming to prioritize inclusivity, the site almost exclusively featured thin white women. When Bruso noted this disconnect on a message board, she was met with a barrage of furiously racist and fatphobic comments defending the company. In the piece "just fat, thanks," Bruso calls on readers to stop using euphemisms for the word fat, quit attempting extreme diets and using weight loss medication, and instead embrace the beauty of fat bodies. Bruso ends the zine by imploring readers to educate themselves in order to dismantle long-standing oppressive systems. —Alekhya
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