Body Liberation
Here are some suggestions for your 2024 Book Bingo NW category: Body Liberation. Body liberation is freedom from the social and political systems of oppression that designate certain bodies as more worthy, healthy, and desirable than others. To this end, body liberation encompasses many movements, including fat liberation, disability justice, racial justice, reproductive justice, and trans liberation.
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A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability
GN Nonfiction. This short guide offers practical advice to disabled and abled people, to understand disability sexuality and dispel common misconceptions about disabled people's bodies.
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Light From Uncommon Stars
Fiction. A trans teen girl runs away from abuse, makes a deal with the Queen of Hell, and joins forces with an extraterrestrial refugee/donut maker, in this out-of-the-box sci-fi novel about building refuge in a hostile world.
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Loving Our Own Bones
Nonfiction. Written by a queer disabled Jewish feminist, this National Jewish Book Award winning title discusses the intersections of spirituality and disability justice through Belser's insights of the Bible and social justice theorists.
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Body Talk
YA Nonfiction. Featuring work from a range of public figures, activists, and artists, this YA anthology explores the political, social, and emotional experiences of having a body.
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Abortion Beyond the Law
Nonfiction. Sociologist Naomi Braine describes international examples of reproductive mutual aid, where feminist networks ensure safe access to abortion pills, information, and resources. Covering the tactics and strategies of African, Latin American, and European organizers, this book traces lines of transnational solidarity in the fight for reproductive freedom.
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#veryfat #verybrave
Nonfiction. Mocking the back-handed responses fat women receive when they post photos of themselves in swimwear, comedian and TV host Nicole Byer uses humor, portraiture, and unapologetic sarcasm to critique overt and insidious fatphobia and to underscore the fact that every body is a bikini body.
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Gordo
Fiction. A finalist for the 2022 Lambda Award for Gay Fiction, this collection of short stories is set in 1970's Watsonville, California, where a young, fat, queer son of Mexican migrant workers comes of age
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Twisted
Nonfiction. Irish author and Guardian columnist Emma Dabiri outlines the ways that racism and capitalism go to work on societal perceptions of Black hair. Through her research and accessible analysis, Dabiri reflects how we might understand the culture of Black hair in the context of both oppression and liberation.
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Every Body Shines
YA Fiction. A multi-genre YA fiction anthology, sixteen stories with fat main characters span a wide range of experiences and emotions -- all written by authors with lived experience of fatphobia.
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Belly of the Beast
Nonfiction. This 2022 Lambda Award winning book details the shared roots of anti-fat and anti-Black violence, and how these systems uniquely interact with transphobia, carceral logic, desirability politics, and the so-called health and wellness industries.
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