bookriot:I’ve written at length about fat representation and...

bookriot:

I’ve written at length about fat representation and how most books, especially in the YA world, don’t do it well. It’s so easy for stereotyping to come into the storyline and so easy for it to go unchecked because the ideas we have surrounding the fat body in our culture are deeply ingrained.

I don’t believe all books with fat characters or real, live fat people need to be 100% positive 100% of the time. That’s false. Rather, those moments when fatness become the central issue, it’...