
The body liberation project : how understanding racism and diet culture helps cultivate joy and build collective freedom / Chrissy King.
Title:
The body liberation project : how understanding racism and diet culture helps cultivate joy and build collective freedom / Chrissy King.
ISBN:
9780593187043
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Publication Information:
[New York] : Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023]
©2023
Physical Description:
x, 303 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Introduction: Identity, representation, and living in a marginalized body -- Understanding the basic concepts: body positivity vs. body neutrality vs. body literation -- Why body liberation is needed: educating yourself about the historical roots of the intersection of diet culture and white supremacy -- Decolonizing our thoughts about our bodies -- Breaking up with diet culture and examining your privilege: what it's costing you and others -- Acknowledging the harm you may be causing others, part 1: the inclusivity band-aid as a block to liberation -- Acknowledging the harm you may be causing others, part 2: the trauma loop -- Embracing pleasure and revolutionizing our relationship with ourselves: celebrating how far you've come and embodying the joy of body liberation -- Grief, remorse, and the mourning of our bodies -- Boundaries and the body -- Love, dating, and body liberation: our bodies are not the measure of our worth -- Conclusion: Our liberation must be collective: passing on body liberation to others.
Summary:
"An exciting, genre-redefining narrative mix of memoir, inspiration, and specific exercises and prompts, with timely messages about social and racial justice and how the world needs to move beyond body positivity to something even more exciting and revolutionary-body liberation"-- Provided by publisher.
When King first joined a gym, she fell into the all-too-common cycle of "not enough-ness": no matter what she achieves, there was always something she felt she needed to change about her body, her appearance, herself. She came to understand that diet and fitness industries rooted in white supremacy were the problem: Euro-centric beauty standards were the problem. Here King shares the wisdom, the tools, and the inspiration to motivate readers to find body liberation. Even more important, to pass it on. -- adapted from jacket
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OCLC Number:
on1350914806
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