Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old - A Makeover for Self and Society

Author(s): Kimberly Dark

Feminism | Essays & Anthologies

Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old is a moving, funny, and startlingly frank collection of personal essays about what it means to look a certain way. Or rather, certain ways.


Navigating Kimberly Dark's experience of being fat since childhood--as well as queer, white-privileged, a gender-confirming "girl with a pretty face," active then disabled, and inevitably aging--each piece blends storytelling and social analysis to deftly coax readers into a deeper understanding of how appearance privilege (and stigma) functionin everyday life and how the architecture of this social world constrains us. At the same time, she provides a blueprint for how each of us can build a more just social world, one interaction at a time.


Includes an afterword by Health at Every Size expert, Linda Bacon. Kimberly Darkis a writer, professor, and raconteur. She has written award-winning plays, and taught and performed for a wide range of audiences in various co untries over the past two decades. She is the author ofThe Daddies, Love and Errors, and co-editor of the anthologyWays of Being in Teaching.


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"Nothing is more brilliant and juicy to me than a woman stepping fully into her self--mind, body, and spirit, full throttle, without apology. Kimberly Dark has been illuminating the path for a long time. This book is a triumph. This book is a jailbreak from cultural inscriptions meant to keep us locked up, shut up, and conforming." --Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and The Book of Joan 

General Fields

  • : 9781849353670
  • : AK Press
  • : AK Press
  • : August 2019
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Kimberly Dark
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 160