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What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice.Anti-fatness is everywhere...Categorized as:
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![Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price]()
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening society’s narrow understanding of neurodiversity“A remarkable work that will stand at the forefront of the neurodiversity movement.”—Barry M...Categorized as:
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![The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman, Rod Dreher]()
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution by Carl R. Trueman, Rod Dreher
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsModern culture is obsessed with identity.Since the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision in 2015, sexual identity has dominated both public discourse and cultural trends--and yet, no historical phenomenon is its own cause. From Augustine to Marx, various views and perspectives have contributed to the modern understanding of self...Categorized as:
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![You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion by Meera Shah]()
You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion by Meera Shah
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling” —Cecile Richards, author of Make Trouble At a time where reproductive rights are at risk, these vital stories of diverse individuals serve as a reminder of the importance of empathy, finding community and motivating advocacy For a long time, when people asked Dr...Categorized as:
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![Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde]()
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. Thus begins this powerful essay; Uses of the Erotic defines the power of the erotic, names the process by which women have been stripped of this power, and considers how women can reclaim it...Categorized as:
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![Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism by Barry M. Prizant, Tom Fields-Meyer]()
Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism by Barry M. Prizant, Tom Fields-Meyer
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAutism is usually portrayed as a checklist of deficits, including difficulties interacting socially, problems in communicating, sensory challenges, and repetitive behavior patterns. This perspective leads to therapies focused on ridding individuals of autistic symptoms. In Uniquely Human, Dr. Barry M...Categorized as:
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![Männer, Männlichkeit und Liebe by bell hooks]()
Männer, Männlichkeit und Liebe by bell hooks
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratings»Männer können nicht lieben, wenn ihnen die Kunst zu lieben nicht beigebracht wurde. Es ist nicht wahr, dass Männer sich nicht ändern wollen. Wahr ist, dass viele Männer Angst vor Veränderung haben. Um lieben zu können, müssen Männer imstande sein, sich von ihrem Wunsch zu verabschieden, andere zu beherrschen...Categorized as:
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![And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts]()
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBy the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century... -
![Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross]()
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA scientific journey to the center of the new female body.The Latin term for the female genitalia, pudendum, means “parts for which you should be ashamed.” Until 1651, ovaries were called female testicles. The fallopian tubes are named for a man. Named, claimed, and shamed: Welcome to the story of the female body, as penned by men... -
![“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon]()
“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justiceThe pushback that shows up in conversations about fat justice takes exceedingly predicable form. Losing weight is easy—calories in, calories out. Fat people are unhealthy. We’re in the midst of an obesity epidemic...Categorized as:
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![Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Judy Norsigian]()
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Judy Norsigian
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsOur Bodies, Ourselves is the resource that women of all ages turn to for information about their bodies, sexuality, and reproductive health. Completely revised and updated, these pages provide women with the information and tools they need to make key health decisions—accurate, evidence-based information, input from leading experts, and personal stories from women who share their experiences...Categorized as:
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![Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen]()
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAn engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attraction, and what we can all learn about desire and identity by using an ace lens to see the worldWhat exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through the world not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about consent, about compromise, about the structures of society? This...Categorized as:
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![What's the T? The no-nonsense guide to all things trans and/or non-binary for teens by Juno Dawson]()
What's the T? The no-nonsense guide to all things trans and/or non-binary for teens by Juno Dawson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsDiscover what it means to be a young transgender and/or non-binary person in the twenty-first century in this candid and funny guide for teens from the bestselling author of This Book is Gay...Categorized as:
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![An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal]()
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America...Categorized as:
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![Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison]()
Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-dollar industries that profit from it, exposing all the ways it robs people of their time, money, health, and happiness... -
![Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare]()
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure—the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed.Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort, makes profits, justifies violence, and promises resolution to body-mind loss...Categorized as:
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![Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win by Jessica Valenti]()
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win by Jessica Valenti
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA clear and concise guide to the politics of post-Roe America, for readers eager to understand the attacks on our bodies and freedom—and to do something about itIn this, her most urgent book yet, New York Times–bestselling author Jessica Valenti dispels misinformation and cuts through the headline overwhelm to illuminate the full-scale assault conservative lawmakers have launched on women’s...Categorized as:
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![Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder]()
Rough Sleepers by Tracy Kidder
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story of Dr. Jim O’Connell, a man who invented ways to create a community of care for a city’s unhoused population, including those who sleep on the streets—the “rough sleepers...Categorized as:
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![I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression by Terrence Real]()
I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression by Terrence Real
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA bestseller for over 20 years, I Don’t Want to Talk About It is a groundbreaking and hopeful guide to understanding and destigmatizing male depression, essential not only for men who may be suffering but for the people who love them... -
![Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky, Connie Burk]()
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky, Connie Burk
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis beloved bestseller—over 180,000 copies sold—has helped caregivers worldwide keep themselves emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, and physically healthy in the face of the sometimes overwhelming traumas they confront every day... -
![Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown, Hess Love]()
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown, Hess Love
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor readers of Ace and Belly of the Beast : A Black queer feminist exploration of asexuality--and an incisive interrogation of the sex-obsessed culture that invisibilizes and ignores asexual and A-spec identity.Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong.The notion that everyone wants sex--and that we all have to have it--is false...Categorized as:
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![Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community by Laura Erickson-Schroth]()
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community by Laura Erickson-Schroth
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere is no one way to be transgender. Transgender and gender non-conforming people have many different ways of understanding their gender identities. Only recently have sex and gender been thought of as separate concepts, and we have learned that sex (traditionally thought of as physical or biological) is as variable as gender (traditionally thought of as social)...Categorized as:
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![Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight by Linda Bacon]()
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight by Linda Bacon
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsA healthy-living book that explains the physiology of weight, this guide debunks the diet-to-lose myth by illustrating that traditional dieting activities actually activate “thrifty genes” that lead to weight gain, both by increasing hunger and triggering other mechanisms...Categorized as:
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![The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan]()
The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsThrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century upends the way we discuss—or avoid discussing—the problems and politics of sex...Categorized as:
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![Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love by Mia Violet]()
Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition From Self-Loathing To Self-Love by Mia Violet
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith entertaining anecdotes and thoughtful observations, this memoir depicts the realities of being a trans woman - from bullying and botched coming out attempts to self-acceptance and love - whilst exploring the inaccuracies of trans representation and confront what the media has gotten wrong...Categorized as:
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![Special Topics in Being a Human: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned the Hard Way about Caring for People, Including Myself by S. Bear Bergman]()
Special Topics in Being a Human: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned the Hard Way about Caring for People, Including Myself by S. Bear Bergman
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs an author, educator, and public speaker, S. Bear Bergman has documented his experience as, among other things, a trans parent, with wit and aplomb. He also writes the advice column "Ask Bear," in which he answers crucial questions about how best to make our collective way through the world...Categorized as:
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![Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer Mullan]()
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer Mullan
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA call to action for therapists to politicize their practice through an emotional decolonial lens. An essential work that centers colonial and historical trauma in a framework for healing, Decolonizing Therapy illuminates that all therapy is―and always has been― inherently political...Categorized as:
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![Right-Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin]()
Right-Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhat does the Right offer to women? How does the Right mobilize women? Why is the Right succeeding in opposing women's rights? With the stark precision and forceful passion that characterize all of her work, Andrea Dworkin answers these timely questions...Categorized as:
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![The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed]()
The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA bold exploration of the relationship between emotions and politics, through case studies on international terrorism, asylum, migration, reconciliation and reparation. Develops a theory of how emotions work and their effects on our daily lives...Categorized as:
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![Sincerely, Your Autistic Child by B. Martin Allen, Brigid Rankowski]()
Sincerely, Your Autistic Child by B. Martin Allen, Brigid Rankowski
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA rare and diverse collection of autistic voices that highlights to parents the unique needs of girls and nonbinary people who are growing up with autism.Most resources available for parents come out of the medical model of disability--from psychologists, educators, parents, and doctors--offering parents a narrow and technical approach to autism...Categorized as:
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