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What is Fat Off, Fat On about?

In this disarming and candid memoir, cultural critic Clarkisha Kent unpacks the kind of compounded problems you face when you're a fat, Black, queer woman in a society obsessed with heteronormativity. There was no easy way for Kent to navigate personal discovery and self-love. As a dark-skinned, first-generation American facing a myriad of mental health issues and intergenerational trauma, at times Kent's body felt like a cosmic punishment. In the face of body dysmorphia, homophobia, anti-Blackness, and respectability politics, the pursuit of "high self-esteem" seemed oxymoronic. Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto is a humorous, at times tragic, memoir that follows Kent on her journey to realizing that her body is a gift to be grown into, that sometimes family doesn't always mean home, and how even ill-fated bisexual romances could free her from gender essentialism. Perfect for readers of Keah Brown's The Pretty One , Alida Nugent's You... Praise for Fat Off, Fat On 2 Title Page 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 7 My Grand Opening 8 My Shitty Family 11 My Terrible, Awful Relationship with Clothes 24 My Skinny Summer 31 My Nappy Hair 40 My (Lack of) Religion 50 My Bisexual

Author

Clarkisha Kent

Publisher

The Feminist Press at CUNY

Language

EN