Finishing What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
"Whatever we may want to think about ourselves, we've got to make the shift from thinking of anti-fat bias as something we decide to do out of animus to something that exists within us unless and until we uproot it. If we are passive, we absorb the bias in the world around us, overwhelmingly suggested to us by people and institutions that stand to gain power and profits by scapegoating fat people."
A very good exploration of multiple, everyday contexts where anti-fat biases appear, where they come from, and the harm that they cause told by someone who shares her experiences with vulnerability, frankness, and awareness of where her experiences leave off. Gets right into it using the language of fat activism, so maybe not a baby's-first (or maybe it is!), but I definitely recommend it.
Finishing The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk.
I actually read a sample of the beginning of this book sometime last year and was iffy on it. It surprised me often, though, and I enjoyed it overall. I wanted it to engage more with class problems, and I felt some strings were left a little too loose by the end, but I'm glad I gave the book a second chance.
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It took a while for me to pick up another book, but I'm now past the quarter mark of The Scarlett Letters, edited by John Wiley, Jr. I have neither read Gone With the Wind nor watched the film nor do I intend to do either, but I've been thinking about epistolary stories lately and this one came up while keyword searching my library's catalog. So I said, what the hell, why not. I don't know if I'll be able to finish it before my hold's up (or if that'll even be a problem if no one's waiting on it), but 'til then emotion_yatta
