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The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color (The Instant Help Solutions Series) Paperback – May 1, 2020

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"A terrific resource that shows readers how to start feeling good about their body and rewire their sense of self-worth."
—School Library Journal starred review

It’s time to ditch harmful, outdated beauty standards and build real, lasting body positivity. It's time for a self-love revolution!

Every day we see movies, magazines, and social media that make us feel like we need to change how we look. This takes a toll on how we think about ourselves—and how we allow others to treat us. And while many teens feel shame about their body, being a teen girl of color can be hard in unique ways. Maybe you feel alienated by the mainstream image of beauty, which is still thin, white and able-bodied. In addition to that, you may also feel pressure from within your community to measure up to a different—but equally unfair—beauty standard. So, how can you start feeling good about yourself when you’re surrounded by these unrealistic—and problematic—ideas about your body?

In The Self-Love Revolution, leading body image expert and creator of #LoseHateNotWeight Virgie Tovar offers an unapologetic guide to help you question popular culture and cultivate radical body positivity. With this groundbreaking book, you’ll identify and challenge mainstream beliefs about beauty; understand the unique tools girls of color have to counter negative body image; and build real, lasting body empowerment. You’ll also learn how to call out diet culture, and discover ways to move beyond your own inner critic and start building the unconditional love for yourself that you deserve.

It’s time to explode society’s beauty standards, stop messing with diets, wear what you want, and recognize that your body is your business. This book will help you find your way to radical body positivity, one step at a time.

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“In this important guide to self-acceptance written specifically for girls of color, Tovar skillfully blends calls to action, relatable personal anecdotes, and clear explanations of the forces that guide individuals’ understanding of themselves.... Tovar’s goal of guiding readers to recognize ‘the sacred gift in every person,’ regardless of shape, ability, gender identity, socioeconomic status, sexuality, or belief system, feels possible with her steady guidance on embracing and appreciating one’s body.”
—Publishers Weekly starred review

“This guide for young women (and all women) discusses how to cut through the dominant narrative of mainstream beauty standards. Readers learn to question and reject narrow definitions of beauty. Tovar, a prominent activist, helps readers overcome the societal and cultural barrage of negative messaging and rewrite the narrative around their own body image. As the author unapologetically points out, one’s body is one’s own business—no one gets to tell someone else what they are. The book does a wonderful job of showing how young girls and women can embrace their individuality and cultivate body positivity. The journey to self-love and acceptance is not a short one, but Tovar demonstrates ways to disrupt mainstream standards, call out sham diet culture, and learn how to be comfortable and proud of one’s body. VERDICT A terrific resource that shows readers how to start feeling good about their body and rewire their sense of self-worth.”
—School Library Journal starred review

“An inclusive, compassionate guidebook that champions girls and women of all ages and challenges the status quo.... A fantastic introduction to/reminder of self-love and self-advocacy. Informative, affirming, and necessary.”
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“In this conversational guidebook, the author encourages girls of color to accept and love their bodies. She points out the connections between fat phobia and racism and offers ways to promote body positivity and reject outdated beauty standards.”
—Chicago Public Library, “Best Teen Nonfiction of 2020” Published On: 2021-01-07

“There is so much I can say about this fantastic, necessary, radical, beautiful, powerful book, but the main thing I want to say (well, actually, I kind of want to SHOUT it) is THANK YOU, VIRGIE! THANK YOU! Thank you for envisioning and writing a book like this, that I can give to my daughter, and every young woman I encounter. Would it be weird if I stood on the street and just handed out copies?!”
—Kate Schatz, New York Times bestselling author of the Rad Women series, including Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide

“Every body exists the exact way it’s meant to exist. While this shouldn’t be a radical concept, it absolutely is. This is the book I wish I’d read when I was 14. Reading it now feels like a healing for my teenage self. The wisdom in this book is absolutely necessary for the critical paradigm shift needed to liberate young women from the toxicity of our current cultural norms. Tovar is a wealth of vibrant stories and radical insight. Armed with her tiny cactus and gigantic umbrella, she joyously jiggles a pathway to freedom and self-acceptance, illuminating the first steps for each of us to make our own individual journeys.”
—Reagan Jackson, program director for Young Women Empowered, award-winning journalist, and producer and cohost of the Deep End Podcast

“How I wish I’d had this book in my arsenal as a fat Colombian girl growing up in the very white, mostly thin suburbs of New Jersey. I cannot wait to share it with my own daughters as they grow older. It will be an antidote to the toxic messaging on beauty standards, dieting, race, and wellness they will no doubt come into contact with. I cannot wait to share it with everyone, TBH—with those who have never heard of radical body positivity or fat acceptance before, with seasoned activists, with everyone.”
—Marie Southard Ospina, MA, writer, editor, and fat acceptance advocate

“Virgie Tovar is the badass bestie we all prayed for in middle school. Her new book is a revolutionary manifesto, one that’s essential reading not just for surviving the most toxic parts of modern culture, but also for embracing our own needs and power. Unflinchingly real—with page after page of quote-worthy truth bombs— this book is a delicious call to arms for the next generation of girl rebels.”
—Laurie Santos, professor of psychology at Yale University, and host of The Happiness Lab podcast

“This book does have the power to start a revolution! Virgie tells the truth—all the truths—girls of color need to know about their bodies and their own worth, from history, to systemic oppression, to her own instructive story. Virgie brings girls a profound message that is totally accessible, never patronizing. She is a brilliant writer and thinker in body positivity, and she transmits to teen girls of color what grown women learn from her every day. There are other body positivity books out there, but this is the one the girls of color I work with truly need.”
—Jennifer Berger, body image educator; and executive director of the nonprofit organization, About-Face

About the Author

Virgie Tovar, MA, is one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She holds a master’s degree in sexuality studies with a focus on the intersections of body size, race, and gender. She is the founder of Babecamp, a four-week online course designed to help people who are ready to break up with diet culture, and creator of the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight. Tovar edited the anthology, Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion; and is author of You Have the Right to Remain Fat, which was placed on the American Library Association’s Amelia Bloomer List. She is a contributor for ForbesWomen and Bedsider, and was named one of the top fifty most influential feminists by Bitch Magazine. She is a recipient of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale University. Tovar has been featured in The New York Times and Tech Insider, and on MTV, Al Jazeera, and Yahoo Health. She lives in San Francisco, CA.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Instant Help (May 1, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 184 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1684034116
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1684034116
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 6 - 12
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.41 x 8 inches

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Virgie Tovar is an author, activist and one of the nation's leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She hosts the podcast Rebel Eaters Club. She started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight and in 2018 gave a TedX talk on the origins of the campaign. She is a contributor for Forbes where she covers plus-size news and how to end weight discrimination at work. Tovar's books include the anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (Seal Press, November 2012), You Have the Right to Remain Fat (Feminist Press, August 2018) and The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color, (New Harbinger, March 2020). She holds a Master's degree in Sexuality Studies with a focus on the intersections of body size, race and gender. After teaching "Female Sexuality" at the University of California at Berkeley, where she completed a Bachelor's degree in Political Science in 2005, she went onto host "The Virgie Show" (CBS Radio) in San Francisco. She is a former plus size style writer for BuzzFeed and was the recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission as well as the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale. Virgie has been featured by the New York Times, Tech Insider, BBC, MTV, Al Jazeera, NPR, Yahoo Health and the San Francisco Chronicle. Tovar was named one of the top 50 most influential feminists of 2018 by Bitch Magazine. She lives in San Francisco.

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Jonna

This is a foundation for the radical self-love that will change this 🌎.

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Had I had this resource of tools when I was a kid, I would have actually loved myself in spite of the hate.

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The Book I Needed as a Young Fat Brown Girl

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 7, 2020

I received a free copy of The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

Virgie Tovar's newest book, The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color, is a radical guide for girls and young women of color to recognize and be affirmed that their bodies, “big or small, disabled or able-bodied, queer or straight, and wherever they reside on the gender spectrum” are powerful, and deserve respect and kindness from ourselves and others.

In The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color there are three main parts: Our Crazy World, Thoughts on Common Body Confusion, and Be You, Not What Someone Else Thinks You Should Be.

In the first section, Tovar describes how beauty standards and racism affects how we think about our body, how fatphobia hurts our body image, and how food is not sinful. Words, I wish I had heard much earlier in my life, which makes this book ideal for teen and young adults although really people of all ages would benefit from.

In the second section, Tovar poses common body confusions, like why does my family talk about my body, and why isn’t confidence enough. These conversations are followed with advice and things to say and do such as tips for developing self-love and what to say to trolls, people who use abusive words and behaviors to hurt another’s self-esteem.

In the third section, Tovar shares with us tools that can help us progress through one’s radical body positivity journey and that listening to our bodies is the most powerful thing we can do. In these chapters Tovar shares tips on how to setup our own boundaries (learning to say no is one of these), and to reframe our relationship with food to one that is positive.

There is so much more to this book than the highlights I’ve mentioned. Virgie Tovar wrote The Self-Love Revolution: Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color as a guide for teens and younger adults and there are journaling prompts throughout the book. I personally believe people of all ages would benefit from reading this book just keep in mind the target demographic and as such this book is a primer not an academic book or research article. Personally, this is the book I needed when I was a young fat brown girl and confused about why people treated me differently because of my body, my size, my skin color, and where I was from. In The Self-Love Revolution, Tovar speaks to these issues of oppression, sharing personal stories to question and challenge the status quo of beauty standards and body image.

I do think the book could benefit from a glossary for the concepts shared throughout the book so that young people can flip to the glossary to remember a word they learned earlier in the book. I also think it would have been great to have at the end of the book, a page or two on resources on where young people can go next in their journey for radical body positivity. Lastly, while Tovar describes some of the earlier roots of connections, such as food and religion, I think the book could have benefited from a short historical mention on this starting of the body positivity movement.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 21, 2020

I wish, wish, wish I had had this book to read when I was younger! Virgie Tovar's Self-Love Revolution is a primer on oppression and self-love as an act of resistance. Through the lens of her own experiences surviving bullying and discrimination related to culture, skin color and appearance, Virgie Tovar lays out the whys, wherefores and how-tos of a meaningful life as a young woman in a gender-biased society.

The thing is, this isn't really just a book. It's a course. It's a program. It's a journey. It's a series of questions that beg more questions, all of which get at the core of: how do I feel about my body and myself? why might I feel those ways? how can I support myself to have an easier time in this world built on other peoples' biases?

Ms. Tovar's language is anecdotally accessible ... reading this book is like sitting with her at her favorite Boba place and listening to her talk about pivotal moments in her life. However, it's not just one woman's testimony that upholds the thesis of Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color. Ms. Tovar draws on research and scholarship by herself as well as numerous experts from intersectional feminist communities.

She tells readers everything I wish I had learned when I was a teen and began my own journey with disordered eating.

She tells readers what I wish I had felt when I grappled alone with my first peer sexual assault.

Respectfully, tells readers how to take care of themselves even when the grown adults in their lives don't necessarily have the tools to do this without passing on harmful and oppressive beliefs.

I recommend this book to young people who identify as female without reservation. I myself am white, of a culturally mixed family background, and I benefitted greatly from the book's mention and unpacking of cultural, ethnic and skin-tone bias. But more importantly I can see how this aspect of The Self-Love Revolution would be extremely important to young people of Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian heritage and to young people with disabilities or who feel in any other way marginalized.

Though this book is for young adults, I recommend it to any person who identifies as female (especially cis women) who want to learn how and why to practice steady self-care as a form of resistance.

Note: Though the book seems clearly written for young cis women and young people who were assigned female at birth, The Self-Love Revolution nods numerous times to the existence of more than two genders and of the necessity to incorporate all people into a body-positive society, regardless of gender expression.

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Christine

A Healing Text with Complex Ideas Made Accessible for Girls and Young Women of Color

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 14, 2020

This text gave me new ways to think about concepts that I felt in some way I had already mastered. I'm a college professor, a feminist/womanist, and a Woman of Color in my late 20s (and a libra). Yet, the truth is that self-love and radical body positivity is a journey. Tovar reminded me just how entrenched our cultural messaging is, that even when we feel or sense something is off (i.e. toxic) in our culture, or know something intellectually, it takes so much work to unlearn this conditioning and see ourselves (and each other's bodies) with loving eyes. Tovar gave me tangible ways to examine how I have let fatphobia and body shaming still linger in my life and how I can begin to resist these practices that do not serve me. I really appreciated Tovar's accessible writing style and her own vulnerability in sharing parts of her story. Her writing reminded me of the rare moment in my life when I was crying and a friend of mine wiped the tears off my face with her bare hands, unafraid to touch the materialized matter of my pain. Tovar did that for me with this text. I'm in love with Virgie and hope I get to meet her one day... and her tiny cactus buddy.

While reading this book I found myself getting up to do things I had never done before, like promise myself to wear that top I bought 5+ years ago that I have been too afraid to wear because I felt my body wasn't perfect to pull it off. I felt so silly, like why did I do this to myself? I should know better. But Virgie helps validate the answer to that, to live unapologetically in our bodies is revolutionary, and we have been conditioned not to step into our power. This book has definitely changed my life and will sit with me for a long time. Long live the self-love revolution!

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