But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it―and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she’s been helping others to do the same. Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free from moral judgment, and you can jiggle through life with respect. In concise and candid language, she delves into unlearning fatphobia, dismantling sexist notions of fashion, and how to reject diet culture’s greatest lie: that fat people need to wait before beginning their best lives.

    In both personal and fictional accounts, these intimate poems navigate experiences with love(s), gender roles, violence and survival. Get your copy now: https://www.akpress.org/love-and-erro...LOVE AND ERRORS is a heartbreaking critique, and yet a heartwarming account, of the personal and collective journey back to connection, love, and peace. In the wake of movements like #metoo, Time's Up Now, and the International Women's March, LOVE AND ERRORS has never been more relevant or necessary."Dark's LOVE AND ERRORS maps a terrain of many violences encountered by women, the body, the environment, language, and colonialism, but the voice that threads these poems together speaks of escape, affirmation, celebration and remembering. These poems cast an unshakable examination into how the heart finds small ways and words to maintain its steady thump." - Tara Betts, author of Break the Habit"I've always loved Kimberly Dark's work, loved the strength and beauty of her renditions, loved the insights and grace of the arrangements of her words… Radical, lovely, I completely fell in love with her and her work when I first heard it and saw her perform." - Jimmy Santiago Baca, Winner, American Book Award, Pushcart Prize, International Prize

    Building on the manifesta power of Things, this memoir goes deeply into Jes's inner life, from growing up a fat girl to dating while fat. With material that will have readers laughing and crying along with Jes's experience, this new book is a natural fit with her irreverent, open-book style. A deeply personal take, Landwhale is a glimpse at life as a fat woman today, but it's also a reflection of the unforgiving ways our culture still treats fatness, all with Jes's biting voice as the guide.

    In recent months, however, there has been a backlash against certain healthy lifestyle brands, particularly those without scientific qualifications who promote ‘clean eating’. THE WELLNESS REBEL explores the aftermath of this, looking at where balanced healthy eating will go next and how we can get back to evidence-based basics and enjoy eating well.With each chapter themed around a common healthy food misconception such as 'The Alkaline Myth', 'Go Raw' and 'How Super are Superfoods?', THE WELLNESS REBEL explores the basics of nutrition in an accessible and entertaining way, with Pixie sharing her tips, tricks and tastiest recipes - including her much-loved Pixie Plates - for a truly healthy diet, with no detoxes, no elimination diets, no restrictions – and absolutely no BS.

    The editors of and authors in this collection harness intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches in order to examine ugliness as a political category that is deployed to uphold established notions of worth and entitlement. On the Politics of Ugliness identifies and challenges the harmful effects that labels and feelings of ugliness have on individuals and the socio-political order. It explores ugliness in relation to the intersectional processes of racialization, colonization and settler colonialism, gender-making, ableism, heteronormativity, and fatphobia. On the Politics of Ugliness asks that we fight against visual injustice and imagine new ways of seeing.