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Smart, sassy, sensual and soulful -- Five women share the poetry and process of fat embodiment.
Fat Poets Speak: Voices of the Fat Poets' Society articulates what it's like to be alive and fat -- and ultimately celebrating both -- in a fat-hating world.
The Fat Poets' Society was born during a poetry workshop at the 2006 annual convention of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA). The poets are donating the royalties from Fat Poets Speak to NAAFA.
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Fat Poets Speak is timely given a sociocultural climate in which fat bodies are considered diseased and blamed for everything from rising medical costs to global warming. (Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona called obesity "the terror within.") Rampant discrimination against fat people has been documented and currently is legal in every state but Michigan. Campaigns aimed at "childhood obesity" have shamed and teased fat children and increased the fears of all children. And despite the existence of an almost $60 billion weight loss industry in the U.S., there is still no safe, effective means to permanently make fat bodies lean. In such a culture it takes courage for fat women, especially, to express anything but shame about their bodies. Fat Poets Speak is part of and intended for the growing movement reclaiming "fat" as a valid way to exist in the world.
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