Virgie Tovar

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

You Have the Right to Remain Fat

Girls of color are at heightened risk for poor body image due to the compounded realities of racism, sexism, and fatphobia. In Flawless, leading body image expert and fat activist Virgie Tovar offers a radical guide to help teen girls of color cultivate unapologetic body positivity. With this groundbreaking book, readers will learn to challenge unattainable beauty standards fueled by the media; understand the unique ways that negative body image manifests in people of color; and build real, lasting body confidence to last a lifetime.

Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color

Flawless

"A terrific resource that shows readers how to start feeling good about their body and rewire their sense of self-worth." —School Library Journal starred review It’s time to ditch harmful, outdated beauty standards and build real, lasting body positivity. It's time for a self-love revolution! Every day we see movies, magazines, and social media that make us feel like we need to change how we look. This takes a toll on how we think about ourselves—and how we allow others to treat us. And while many teens feel shame about their body, being a teen girl of color can be hard in unique ways. Maybe you feel alienated by the mainstream image of beauty, which is still thin, white and able-bodied. In addition to that, you may also feel pressure from within your community to measure up to a different—but equally unfair—beauty standard. So, how can you start feeling good about yourself when you’re surrounded by these unrealistic—and problematic—ideas about your body? In The Self-Love Revolution, leading body image expert and creator of #LoseHateNotWeight Virgie Tovar offers an unapologetic guide to help you question popular culture and cultivate radical body positivity. With this groundbreaking book, you’ll identify and challenge mainstream beliefs about beauty; understand the unique tools girls of color have to counter negative body image; and build real, lasting body empowerment. You’ll also learn how to call out diet culture, and discover ways to move beyond your own inner critic and start building the unconditional love for yourself that you deserve. It’s time to explode society’s beauty standards, stop messing with diets, wear what you want, and recognize that your body is your business. This book will help you find your way to radical body positivity, one step at a time.

The Self-Love Revolution

A scathing attack on diet culture, fatphobia and ingrained sexism from bold author, activist and body image expert Virgie Tovar. Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it—and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she's been helping others to do the same. Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free from moral judgment, and you can jiggle through life with respect. In concise and candid language, she delves into unlearning fatphobia, dismantling sexist notions of fashion, and rejecting diet culture's greatest lie: that fat people need to wait before beginning their best lives.

A Manifesto

Girls of color are at heightened risk for poor body image due to the compounded realities of racism, sexism, and fatphobia. In The Self-Love Revolution, leading body image expert and fat activist Virgie Tovar offers a radical guide to help teen girls of color cultivate unapologetic body positivity. With this groundbreaking book, readers will learn to challenge unattainable beauty standards fueled by the media; understand the unique ways that negative body image manifests in people of color; and build real, lasting body confidence to last a lifetime.

Radical Body Positivity for Girls of Color [16pt Large Print Edition]

Crescendo como uma garota gorda, Virgie Tovar acreditava que seu corpo era algo a ser "melhorado". Mas depois de duas décadas de dieta e culpa constante, ela superou isso – e se deu de presente a liberdade de confiar em seu próprio corpo. Desde então, ela ajuda outras a fazerem o mesmo. Tovar está faminta por um mundo onde os corpos são valorizados igualmente. "Eu queria que alguém tivesse me contado, há uns vinte e oito anos, que não havia nada de errado em ser gorda, e que, na verdade, era bem irado ser gorda. Eu gostaria que vivêssemos em uma cultura onde as pessoas de todos tamanhos fossem tratadas com toda a dignidade e humanidade que cada um de nós merece." Em linguagem concisa e franca, Meu corpo, minhas medidas discorre sobre a gordofobia, desmantelando noções sexistas de moda, e ensinando como rejeitar a maior mentira da cultura da dieta: que as pessoas gordas precisam emagrecer para começar a melhor parte da sua vida! Comece já a melhor parte da sua vida!

Meu corpo, minhas medidas

In this fun, fresh, fat-positive anthology, fat activist and sex educator Virgie Tovar brings together voices from an often-marginalized community to talk about and celebrate their lives. Hot & Heavy rejects the idea that being thin is best, instead embracing the many fabulous aspects of being fat—building fat-positive spaces, putting together fat-friendly wardrobes, turning society’s rules into personal politics, and creating supportive, inclusive communities. Writers, activists, performers, and poets—including April Flores, Alysia Angel, Charlotte Cooper, Jessica Judd, Emily Anderson, Genne Murphy, and Tigress Osborn—cover everything from fat go-go dancing to queer dating to urban gardening in their essays, exploring their experiences with the word “fat,” pinpointing particular moments that have impacted the way they think and feel about their bodies, and telling the story of how they each became fat revolutionaries. Ground-breaking and long overdue, Hot & Heavy is a fierce, sassy, thoughtful, authentic, and joyous collection of stories about unapologetically—and unconditionally—loving the body you’re in.

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