You Have the Right to Remain Fat

This manifesto isn't about body positivity-it's about a fat revolution.

Virgie Tovar is an author, activist and one of the nation's leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the founder of Babecamp, started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight, and edited the groundbreaking anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (Seal Press 2012). Virgie has been featured by the New York Times, MTV, Al Jazeera, NPR, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, and BUST.

Introduction What Are Fatphobia and Diet Culture? Restriction Doesn't Work-It's Not You Dieting: Family, Assimilation, and Bootstrapping Dieting is a Survival Technique Internalized Inferiority and Sexism Bros <3 Thinness: Heteromasculinity and Whiteness Fatphobia is the New Language of Classism and Racism What Early Fat Activism Taught Me In the Future, I'm Fat I Want Freedom You Have the Right to Remain Fat Acknowledgements