Resources
Books
Binge Eating Disorder: The Journey to Recovery and Beyond by Amy Pershing and Chevese Turner
Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression by
Jana Evans Braziel & Kathleen LeBescoCurvy Yoga®: Love Yourself & Your Body a Little More Each Day by Anna Guest-Jelley
Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear, Get on the Mat, Love Your Body by Jessamyn Stanley
Fat and Faithful: Learning to Love Our Bodies, Our Neighbors, and Ourselves by J. Nicole Morgan
The Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun Harrison
The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women’s Unruly Political Bodies by Andrea Elizabeth Shaw
The Fat Pedagogy Reader by Erin Cameron and Constance Russell
The Fat Studies Reader by Sondra Solovay and Esther Rothblum
The Journal of Radical Permission by Adrienne Maree Brown & Sonya Renee Taylor
The Not So Subtle Art of Being A Fat Girl: Loving the Skin You’re In by Tess Holliday
The Politics of Size: Perspectives from the Fat Acceptance Movement by Ragen Chastain
The Unapologetic Fat Girl’s Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts by Hanne Blank
Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living by Jes Baker
Tipping the Scales of Justice: Fighting Weight-Based Discrimination by Sondra Solovay, JD
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon (Author), Samara Naeymi (Narrator)
Fat Church: Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation by Anastasia E. Kidd
Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth and the Politics of Stigma by Jason Whitesel
Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America’s Obesity Epidemic by J. Eric Oliver
Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood by Anna Kirkland
Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture by Amy Erdman Farrel
Fat! So?: Because You Don’t Have to Apologize for Your Size by Marilyn Wann
Fat-Talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat by Susan Greenhalgh
Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight by Linda Bacon
Her Body and Other Parties (Fiction) by Carmen Maria Machado
Historicizing Fat in Anglo-American Culture by Elena Levy-Navarro
Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love & Fashion by Virgie Tovar
How to Raise an Intuitive Eater by Amee Severson & Sumner Brooks
Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies and Fat by Hillel Schwartz
On the Politics of Ugliness by Ela Przybylo and Sara Rodrigues
Queering Fat Embodiment by Cat Pause, Jackie Wakes and Samantha Murray
Questions and Answers about Binge Eating Disorder: A Guide for Clinicians by Dr Wendy Oliver-Pyatt
Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women on Fat Oppression by Lisa Schoenfielder
Shameful Bodies: Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement by Michelle Mary Lelwica
Websites and Blogs
Picture Books
Young Adult Books
Middle Grade Books
Podcasts
Historic Reading
A timeline of Queer, Trans, and Fat Activism created by Dr. Charlotte Cooper.
The Fat Liberation Manifesto is a must-read and resonates 50 years later. Written in 1973 by Judy Freespirit and Aldebaran, and published by the Fat Underground.
An article written in Ravishly by Virgie Tovar about some of the history of the Fat Liberation Movement.
An important article about The Fat Underground that was published in the now-defunct Radiance Magazine.
A film made by The Fat Underground and portions filmed by Shirl Buss.
The Fat Underground archive.
The history of NAAFA (National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance). NAAFA was formed in the 1960’s and therefore is the longest-running organization dedicated to work on behalf of size equity and liberation.
Professional Organizations
Fat Liberation & Intersectionality
A post by NAAFA’s Executive Director Tigress Osborne about why intersectionality is so important to the organization and fat movement.
Excellent video discussion about the importance of intersectionality with Tigress Osborne of NAAFA, Tammy Johnson and Caleb Luna.
The Spectrum of Fat: Article on the community origins of the term “Superfat.”