Virgie Tovar

You Have the Right to Remain Fat

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A scathing attack on diet culture, fatphobia and ingrained sexism from bold author, activist and body image expert Virgie Tovar.
Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it—and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she's been helping others to do the same.
Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free from moral judgment, and you can jiggle through life with respect. In concise and candid language, she delves into unlearning fatphobia, dismantling sexist notions of fashion, and rejecting diet culture's greatest lie: that fat people need to wait before beginning their best lives.
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79 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2018
Publication year
2018
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    the inherent magic of being alive and the vehicle through which that magic is experienced, my body.
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    Through a series of violent, culturally sanctioned events—so commonplace that women simply call them “life”—my innate relationship to my body was taken from me and replaced with something foreign and alien and harmful.
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    I would lose sight of how magical my body was, how magical I was. I would lose the sense that my body was mine at all.

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