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.
"Searing excoriation of a diet culture that has forced generations
of fat people to focus their anger at their own bodies, rather than
at a society that refuses to let them live freely and happily at
any size." --Vogue "Combines candid essays with cultural criticism
that will embolden fat people to simply live." --Bitch Magazine
"Eye-opening. . . . This short, accessible book packs a powerful
message that will appeal to anyone eager to uncover and dispel
cultural myths about beauty." --Publishers Weekly "A manifesto for
fat rights and freedom from the tyranny of diet, exercise, and
body-image conformity." --Kirkus Reviews "There is a lot of anger
here, but there is also a lot of inspiration, and Tovar's call to
action for fat women to embrace their bodies as is will resonate."
--Booklist "A must-read." --w24 "Long-time body positive writer,
speaker, and activist Virgie Tovar is gifting brown round girls the
book we've been hungry for." -Mitú "In this bold new book, Tovar
eviscerates diet culture, proclaims the joyous possibilities of
fatness, and shows us that liberation is possible."--Sarai Walker,
author of Dietland
"Lucid, joyous, mad as hell, and making a whole lot of sense."
--Joanna Walsh, author of Worlds from the World's End "Tovar's
words provide crucial guidance, clarity, and support for all those
who champion universal body liberation." --Jessamyn Stanley, author
of Every Body Yoga "Fierce, passionate, and poignant, You Have the
Right to Remain Fat will inspire you and ignite the
revolution."--Linda Bacon, author of Health at Every Size "This
book feels like spending a margarita-soaked day at the beach with
your smartest friend. Virgie Tovar shares juicy secrets and makes
revolutionary ideas viscerally accessible. You'll be left
enlightened, inspired, happier, and possibly angrier than when you
started." --Joy Nash, actress "Tovar is a vital voice in
contemporary activism, media, and feminism. The joy she takes in
her own body and life, combined with the righteous anger she
expresses at an oppressive world is a truly radical act. She is
deeply thoughtful, but does not equivocate. She confronts bigotry,
but does not engage with bullshit." --Kelsey Miller, author of Big
Girl "A fantastic book that is witty, warm, and wise." --Charlotte
Cooper, author of Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement "Virgie
Tovar does the thing we need to see more of in political writing:
she shares every bit of her humanity. Her clear descriptions of
anti-fat bias and the social construction that is 'diet culture'
make it difficult to disagree with her main point: you are not the
problem, society is the problem. The world desperately needs to be
told this truth." --Isabel Foxen Duke, creator of
StopFightingFood.com "She excels at critiquing diet culture;
describing how it matches the American narrative of failure and
success as personal endeavors and how dieting and fatphobia are
ideologies that rely upon inducing inferiority. . . . Combining
aspects of feminism and women's health, Tovar's impassioned call to
action challenges Western beauty norms and how women (and girls)
develop self-esteem. Ideal for YA crossover." --Library Journal
"Written with fierce urgency, Tovar's book boldly dismantles our
culture's grip on our bodies and scrutinizes how fatness and
deviations from cultural beauty standards are unjustly vilified."
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