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The body liberation project : how understanding racism and diet culture helps cultivate joy and build collective freedom / Chrissy King.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: x, 303 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780593187043
  • 0593187040
Other title:
  • How understanding racism and diet culture helps cultivate joy and build collective freedom
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction. Identity, representation, and living in a marginalized body -- Understanding the basic concepts: body positivity vs. Body neutrality vs. Body literation -- Why body liberation is needed: educating yourself about the historical roots of the intersection of diet culture and white supremacy -- Decolonizing our thoughts about our bodies -- Breaking up with diet culture and examining your privilege: what it's costing you and others -- Acknowledging the harm you may be causing others, part 1: the inclusivity band-aid as a block to liberation -- Acknowledging the harm you may be causing others, part 2: the trauma loop -- Embracing pleasure and revolutionizing our relationship with ourselves: celebrating how far you've come and embodying the joy of body liberation -- Grief, remorse, and the mourning of our bodies -- Boundaries and the body -- Love, dating, and body liberation: our bodies are not the measure of our worth -- Conclusion. Our liberation must be collective: passing on body liberation to others.
Summary: "An exciting, genre-redefining narrative mix of memoir, inspiration, and specific exercises and prompts, with timely messages about social and racial justice and how the world needs to move beyond body positivity to something even more exciting and revolutionary-body liberation"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: When King first joined a gym, she fell into the all-too-common cycle of "not enough-ness": no matter what she achieves, there was always something she felt she needed to change about her body, her appearance, herself. She came to understand that diet and fitness industries rooted in white supremacy were the problem: Euro-centric beauty standards were the problem. Here King shares the wisdom, the tools, and the inspiration to motivate readers to find body liberation. Even more important, to pass it on. -- adapted from jacket
List(s) this item appears in: Black History Month for Adults | Women's History Month (Adults)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From author and wellness personality Chrissy King, an exciting, genre-redefining narrative mix of memoir, inspiration, and activities and prompts, with timely messages about social and racial justice and how the world needs to move beyond body positivity to something even more exciting and revolutionary- body liberation.

When Chrissy King first joined a gym, she had one goal in mind- to "get skinny." In pursuit of this goal, she fell into the all-too-common cycle of "not enough-ness"; no matter what she achieved, there was always something she felt she needed to change about her body, her appearance, herself. This made her realize the most liberating truth of all- She was not the problem. Diet and fitness industries rooted in white supremacy were the problem; Eurocentric and carefully manufactured beauty standards were the problem; discourses telling her that her happiness was directly tied to her physical appearance were the problem. So she created an actionable method to redefine the relationship we have with our bodies, thereby achieving a sense of self-worth that is completely separate from how we look.

The Body Liberation Project is about finding actualfreedom in our bodies by discovering strength and aspects of fitness, movement, and eating that work for YOU. It's about realizing that the goal is not to look at our bodies and love everything we see; it's to understand that at our essence we are so much more than our bodies. But it's also about recognizing the harsh realities that prohibit people in marginalized bodies from being able to do so. Society constantly bombards those who fall outside Eurocentric standards of beauty (think Black, fat, trans, etc.) with the message that they are less attractive, and part of the journey toward body liberation is examining your own privilege, acknowledging the harm you may be causing others, and mourning your old ideas about what a body "should" look like.

Recognizing that none of us are free until all of us are, Chrissy King shares the wisdom, the tools, and the inspiration to motivate readers to find body liberation and, even more important, to pass it on.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction. Identity, representation, and living in a marginalized body -- Understanding the basic concepts: body positivity vs. Body neutrality vs. Body literation -- Why body liberation is needed: educating yourself about the historical roots of the intersection of diet culture and white supremacy -- Decolonizing our thoughts about our bodies -- Breaking up with diet culture and examining your privilege: what it's costing you and others -- Acknowledging the harm you may be causing others, part 1: the inclusivity band-aid as a block to liberation -- Acknowledging the harm you may be causing others, part 2: the trauma loop -- Embracing pleasure and revolutionizing our relationship with ourselves: celebrating how far you've come and embodying the joy of body liberation -- Grief, remorse, and the mourning of our bodies -- Boundaries and the body -- Love, dating, and body liberation: our bodies are not the measure of our worth -- Conclusion. Our liberation must be collective: passing on body liberation to others.

"An exciting, genre-redefining narrative mix of memoir, inspiration, and specific exercises and prompts, with timely messages about social and racial justice and how the world needs to move beyond body positivity to something even more exciting and revolutionary-body liberation"-- Provided by publisher.

When King first joined a gym, she fell into the all-too-common cycle of "not enough-ness": no matter what she achieves, there was always something she felt she needed to change about her body, her appearance, herself. She came to understand that diet and fitness industries rooted in white supremacy were the problem: Euro-centric beauty standards were the problem. Here King shares the wisdom, the tools, and the inspiration to motivate readers to find body liberation. Even more important, to pass it on. -- adapted from jacket

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