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“It also gave me a wildly fucked-up impression of the relationships adult women had—not only with romantic partners, but with food, which became allegorical to their messy dating lives. At some point, I started to wonder if the writers of these movies and TV shows based their entire knowledge of women on other movies and TV shows and not on actual women.”
― If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
― If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
“Savala Nolan, author and director of the Henderson Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law, writes that the fat suit “perpetuates the categorically false and harmful myth that fat people are thin people for whom something went wrong, and that there is a thin person in every fat person who wants (‘deserves’) to get out.”
― If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
― If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
“I cannot see myself clearly, the way none of us can when we are twenty-one and sad and think that maybe no one should love us at all. It is like looking at a painting too close up.”
― If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
― If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury
Amy’s 2025 Year in Books
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