Landwhale
Subtitle: on turning insults into nicknames, why body image is hard, and how diets can kiss my ass
By: Jes Baker
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Seal Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781580056816
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Health; Overweight persons; Overweight women; Biography
Description: "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.
Table of contents: title: This was all just a big mistake; title: 6 ways to hate your body; title: I was a fat kid; title: I wasn't actually a fat kid; title: The fat cowgirl position; title: Landwhale; title: Things I thought I couldn't do but then did; title: HAES, hot mics, and other things I learned about the hard way; title: I've never owned a body; title: Sick; title: Safety scares the shit out of me; title: Three vaginas; title: So, have you ever thought about dieting?; title: Maybe I'm a hobbit?; title: In praise of loud and fat women; title: David and Goliath; title: The pros and cons of being fat; title: American billboard; title: The bulletproof entity; title: 6 ways to love your body.