Virgie Tovar is an author, activist and one of the nation's leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the founder of Babecamp, started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight, and edited the groundbreaking anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (Seal Press 2012). Virgie has been featured by the New York Times, MTV, Al Jazeera, NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, and BUST.
1. Introduction
2. What Are Fatphobia and Diet Culture?
3. Restriction Doesn't Work-It's Not You
4. Dieting: Family, Assimilation, and Bootstrapping
5. Dieting is a Survival Technique
6. Internalized Inferiority and Sexism
7. Bros <3 Thinness: Heteromasculinity and Whiteness
8. Fatphobia is the New Language of Classism and Racism
9. What Early Fat Activism Taught Me
10. In the Future, I'm Fat
11. I Want Freedom
12. You Have the Right to Remain Fat
13. Acknowledgements