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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Love With Accountability
Nonfiction. This anthology details the survivor-centered movement to end child sexual abuse, transform the cultural values that enable sexual violence, and envision accountability and justice without causing more harm.
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The Body Is Not An Apology
Nonfiction. Poet and activist Sonya Renee Taylor guides readers through practices of healing our relationship with our bodies, and highlights its potential for collective liberation.
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The Risk It Takes to Bloom
Nonfiction. In her debut memoir, journalist and organizer Raquel Willis reflects on her gender and political awakening as a Black trans woman, honors Black trans kin whose lives were stolen by systemic violence, and uplifts the trans-led movements for bodily autonomy and collective liberation.
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Disability Visibility
Nonfiction. This anthology of disabled writers is composed of four sections: "Being" (on the realities of living in a disabling society), "Becoming" (on self-determination), "Doing" (on the profound impacts that disabled have on the world), and "Connecting" (on building communities of care despite the isolating effect of ableism).
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Deconstructing the Fitness Industrial Complex
Nonfiction. QTBIPOC, fat, and disabled trainers, coaches, and bodyworkers share stories and reflections on the fitness industry's systemic harms, and re-envision fitness and physical movement as a safer, care-centered practice of collective liberation.
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