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They don't make plus size spacesuits
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Science FictionGeneral FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher Price: $9.99
ISBN13: 9780578501376
Publisher: Ali Thompson
Published: Jun 28 2019
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.09 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
They don't make plus size spacesuits is a sci-fi short story collection, featuring an introductory essay. It is written by long-time fat activist, Ali Thompson of Ok2BeFat.
This book is a incandescent cry from the heart, a radical turn away from utopian daydreaming of future body perfection to center a fat perspective instead.
Ali invites people to experience a fictional version of a few of the many ways that fatphobia can manifest in a life. The ways that the people closest to fat people can subject them to tiny betrayals on a near constant basis. The disdain that piles up over the years, until it all becomes too large to bear.
And while some of the fatphobic tech in these stories may seem outrageous and downright unbelievable, it is all based on extrapolations of so-called advances by the diet industry, as they search for ever more efficient ways to starve people.
The modern day worship of Health promises a future peopled only by the thin, a world where the War on Fatness is won and only visually acceptable bodies remain.
What will that future mean for the fat people who will inevitably still continue to exist?
Nothing good.
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