Kimberly Dark

Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old (eBook, ePUB)

A Makeover for Self and Society

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Nothing is more brilliant and juicy to me than a woman stepping fully into her self-mind, body, and spirit, full throttle, without apology. Kimberly Dark has been illuminating the path for a long time. This book is a triumph. This book is a jailbreak from cultural inscriptions meant to keep us locked up, shut up, and conforming." -Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and The Book of Joan

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 Dark's experience of being fat since childhood-as well as queer, white-privileged, a gender-confirming "girl with a pretty face," active then disabled, and inevitably aging-each 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.

Kimberly Dark is a writer, professor, and raconteur. She has written award-winning plays, and taught and performed for a wide range of audiences in various countries over the past two decades. She is the author of The Daddies, Love and Errors, and co-editor of the anthology Ways of Being in Teaching.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AK Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781849353687
• Artikelnr.: 58471780

Autorenporträt

Kimberly Dark is a writer, professor, and raconteur, working to reveal the hidden structure of everyday life one essay, poem, or story at a time. She has written award-winning plays, and taught and performed for a wide range of audiences in various countries over the past two decades. She is the author of The Daddies, Love and Errors, and co-editor of the anthology Ways of Being in Teaching.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Maintaining Appearances
2. Celebration
3. Another Way to Starve
4. Language, Fat and Causation
5. Diamond Jim
6. Wanted: Fat Girl
7. Dances With Light
8. Thighs and Freedom
9. Big People on the Airplane
10. Cozy or Uncomfortable: Tight Public Places
11. Here's Looking at You
12. Shadow on a Tightrope
13. Coming Out Fat
14. My First Lover Was Not a Lesbian
15. Becoming Travolta
16. Does This Limp Make Me Look Fat?
17. The Chance to Practice
18. The Aging Yoga Body
19. Migration Patterns
20. The Naked Place
21. Building the Good Body
22. Self-Help, Fitness and Feminism
23. How the Women's Movement Ruined Everything
24. Passing it On
25. Learning to Fish
Afterword by Linda Bacon, PhD, ("Exploring the Health Science in Fat,
Pretty and Soon to be Old")