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An intersectional, feminist YA anthology from some of today's most exciting voices across a span of genres, all celebrating body diversity and fat acceptance through short stories.
Fat girls and boys and nonbinary teens are: friends who lift each other up, heroes who rescue themselves, big bodies in space, intellects taking up space, and bodies looking and feeling beautiful ...more
Fat girls and boys and nonbinary teens are: friends who lift each other up, heroes who rescue themselves, big bodies in space, intellects taking up space, and bodies looking and feeling beautiful ...more
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Hardcover, 416 pages
Expected publication:
May 11th 2021
by Bloomsbury YA
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Jun 28, 2020
Carly
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16 stories about fat teens loving themselves? we love to see it!!!
only downside? i have to wait until spring 2021, but it'll be worth it 💜
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only downside? i have to wait until spring 2021, but it'll be worth it 💜
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"Fat girls and boys and nonbinary teens are: friends who lift each other up, heroes who rescue themselves, big bodies in space, intellects taking up space, and bodies looking and feeling beautiful."
This just sounds so incredibly good and I am especially happy to read that the stories are "written by authors who live these lives too"! I truly cannot wait for this 💜
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This just sounds so incredibly good and I am especially happy to read that the stories are "written by authors who live these lives too"! I truly cannot wait for this 💜
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This book is everything. Full disclosure, I'm one of the authors, but I'm also a massive fan of Fat Positive YA, and these stories are INCREDIBLE and the forward made me cry.
Each story is written from a place of love and acceptance, we have sci-fi and fantasy, contemporary and romance. It's enormously inclusive. And in each story, the fat mc is celebrated and centered. I'm so in love with all of these stories and these authors.
But most of all, I cannot wait for this book to find the readers who ...more
Each story is written from a place of love and acceptance, we have sci-fi and fantasy, contemporary and romance. It's enormously inclusive. And in each story, the fat mc is celebrated and centered. I'm so in love with all of these stories and these authors.
But most of all, I cannot wait for this book to find the readers who ...more

Dec 22, 2020
Kait Goodwin ★Kait Plus Books★
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it was amazing
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