Reviews and Comments

Good book. I found the first two chapters difficult because I don't have a background in the type of philosophy that is being built onnin these chapters, but from weighing lives onward the book is great and showed me several new perspectives.

Good book. Pretty information dense, lots of statistics from good sources while being so personal with own experiences and examples from other folks' lives that it doesn't feel as academic as most books with such a stats volume would. Recommended read, especially for thin privileged people to investigate their biases against fat people and why they have them.

Overall I am happy I read this though I have a few issues with some of the content. As someone who lived in Winnipeg, the city that stands on the remnants of the town that saw the birth of the Red River Métis, hearing someone suggest that the term Métis simply means 'mixed race' feels offensive.

Besides such qualms (which are not my place to comment on at all anyway), I am sad about most of the interviews being within a small subset of cultures and highly focused on the northern Turtle Island context. I would have appreciated some additions from communities in other parts of the world.

Overall though, I learned some things and these are all important conversations to have so it is a worthwhile read.

Picked this up together with another book. Queer Hawaiʻian authorship peaked my interest plus it's been a while since I sat and read some scifi. So far I am enjoying the book.

Just a very nice and easy to read short interwoven story collection.. No real hard edges. Recommending as a good read in these increasingly dark times.