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About The Body Liberation Project From author and wellness personality Chrissy King, an exciting, genre-redefining narrative mix of memoir, inspiration, and activities and prompts, with timely messages about social and racial justice and how the world needs to move beyond body positivity to something even more exciting and revolutionary: body liberation.

Listen to a sample from The Body Liberation Project. About Chrissy King Chrissy King is a writer, speaker, former strength coach, and educator with a passion for creating a diverse and inclusive wellness industry. Product Details.

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Carolyn Simon. Incredible book that has a different perspective on body image than others. Learning about diet culture and body image alongside white supremacy was very enlightening and made me assess my own privileges and experiences as a white woman who had survived an eating disorder.

Mia Guzzo. The Body Liberation Project by Chrissy King is an informative read on dismantling the hate we feel for our bodies due to white supremacy and other bigoted views, as well as personal and relatable stories about body image issues and reaching towards body liberation.

The Body Liberation Project is told by a plus-size black woman, Chrissy King, that brings us along on her journey of body liberation and that progression throughout her life. Discussed through the ideas of intersectionality, we see the ways in which liberating marginalized bodies is a radical change that is not encouraged by society as well as going much deeper than just 'body positivity'.

With comprehensive questions at the end of every chapter and personal life stories, The Body Liberation Project serves to inform us on our body journey, meet us where we are, and relate to Chrissy with larger connections.

As someone who has struggled greatly with body image throughout my life, King's novel is a great realistic view of this issue that links it to greater problems in our society.

Often times, when we are closely linked to an issue, we do not see it on a grander and feel very personally; King ties our ideas of body image to white supremacy and other marginalized identities which is why our goal needs to be nothing less than liberation. This novel helped me realize that our goal should be body liberation, but this is not always realistic.

We should work to form healthy connections with our bodies and to unlearn what we on a systematic and personal level have been forced to believe about our worth linked with appearance.

Thank you to NetGalley and PENGUIN GROUP Dutton for this ARC! Carrie Rose. I thought this book looked great from the cover. I love to see pushback against diet culture, and I wanted to learn more about the racist origins of anti-fat bias.

I was disappointed, however, when in chapter one the author spent many, many pages explaining why certain people should remove themselves from the body positivity space. I don't agree that social justice movements benefit from pushing people out of their spaces unless the people are hostile to the cause.

There isn't a literal, physical space that can only accommodate a certain number of people. I think a large movement is more powerful and can accomplish more toward positive change.

I also find it problematic to exclude people from the space based on demographics race is most commonly mentioned, but body size, gender, and sexual orientation are also frequently mentioned.

Chrissy King compares fat Black women who belong in the space to thin white women who supposedly don't belong , but the dividing lines between those groups aren't always clear-cut. Not everyone is obviously white or obviously Black. Body sizes also change over the course of people's lives.

If someone "qualifies" to be in the space because they're fat, but then they lose weight, do they have to remove themselves? What if they lost weight because of an illness? What particular weight counts as "fat" or "thin?

These questions are particularly relevant to me, because I have experienced systemic discrimination because of my weight, but my weight has varied a lot over the course of my life.

I would like to think that the body positivity space would be somewhere that I could find support in accepting my natural size and not trying to artificially suppress my weight for societal approval. But reading Chrissy King's book suggests to me that if I tried to find that support, I might be shamed for participating in the space when I'm not Black and I might not be considered fat enough.

I do think that there is value in this book, and I'd probably recommend it to people who are clearly the target audience for it. It's just not very enjoyable to read once the author has suggested that I should be removing myself from the body positivity space, when I was reading the book because I wanted to participate.

This made her realize the most liberating truth of all: She was not the problem. Wow was this book a chore to read. I was really into at first but it was so repetitive. It honestly read like a LONG blog post: repetitive, filled will long personal anecdotes that add very little to the point but add A LOT to the word count, and did I mention repetitive?

Honestly parts were like listening to a podcast before it gets the insignificant parts edited out. Literally there is a section where she describes IN DETAIL different dance moves. I have many impactful quotes highlighted but so many of them were the quotes the author used but not what the author herself said.

Dana Monsees. If I could give this book stars, I would. I want to buy this book for every womxn I know. Everyone needs to read this book.

Everyone of every color, every size, etc. I feel like I highlighted every other sentence. Sometimes even whole pages. I absolutely love that the author sprinkled in some of her signature humor, which did help break up the heavy but necessary topics.

This book will help guide you - and all people - to body neutrality and liberation. By helping you become more aware AND teaching you how to do your part in dismantling the systems of oppression for all bodies that make you feel like you could never be good enough even if you tried. EVERYONE needs to read this book.

Having a very limited understanding of what anti-racism actually was -especially within the wellness community- I read this book because I wanted to educate myself on the experience of others. I am so grateful that this book exists- that the author took the time to really spell it out for me….

And to also offer such a hopeful and positive way forward. This book hits the mark. I had recently read Shrill and parts of that book the part about not being afraid to take up space really resonated with me. Parts of this book were hard to hear… and all the more necessary because of the world we live in today.

As someone who struggles to feel comfortable in my own skin this book presented a practical and optimistic way of moving beyond my outside appearance to what really matters. The journal prompts at the end of each chapter were vulnerable and lovely… and at times called out the BS that we might not have been aware of.

This book taught me that I can love myself better when I recognize how much white supremacy is involved in the diet industry. Super thrilled that I was given the chance to read this book before its publication day.

I have to say, I HIGHLY enjoyed this candid book. I appreciated all of the commentary, stories, and honesty Chrissy shares. She discusses white supremacy and anti-Black biases and how they are at the heart of the fitness and wellness industries.

She pulls from a plethora of sources to support her argument. She also opens up in the most vulnerable way by sharing experiences from her own life. I also loved the questions at the end of each chapter.

I was grateful for her suggestions for how to put things into action. And I really internalized her message of liberating oneself is only part of it—we must work towards liberation for all.

Overall, an amazing and necessary read! I HIGHLY recommend it for every single person out there, because we are all affected by this. Thank you Penguin Dutton and NetGalley for this eARC!

Chrissy King shares her journey through the wild ride of the pandemic while undergoing massive life changes. Many readers will relate to her quest to make herself smaller and be the perfect, palatable good girl. King conquers this way of thinking as her quest leads her to fitness and to the realms of body image and then body positivity to the promised land of body liberation.

The book explains how and why you should let go of body positivity and pursuit of mainstream eurocentric beauty standards and free yourself to take up space and just be. Think of what you and what women in general will accomplish when we are no longer obsessed with thinness and beauty.

If you are ready to help dismantle white supremacy and diet culture, you will enjoy this debut book by King. The Body Liberation Project would make a great stepping stone or accompaniment to reading the works of Audre Lorde and bell hooks. This book is not for those who want to avoid being uncomfortable or to question societal and individual standards and values.

Please note that I was provided an advanced reader copy through Net Galley. The overly hyped body positivity, big girls are doing it for themselves movement, really annoyed me.

It feels condescending. And if we can be just a little bit honest, no one is standing from a mountaintop or a red carpet shouting about how much they desire fat bodies especially fat black bodies…not even people with fat bodies!

That is the energy I was bringing to The Body Liberation Project by Chrissy King. I began to read the book and I quickly changed my tune. This book was about so much more than loving your fat body. Chrissy addresses white supremacy and the influence racism has on diet culture and the European standard of beauty.

I am everyone. This was an enjoyable read on a trending topic that was not preachy or shallow. It is evident Chrissy King has a passion for the work as it translates beautiful through the pages. TW: mentions of fatphobia, racism, eating disorders, abusive relationships As a white person I want to say please read BIPOC reviews and give them priority!

This is an amazing book about some extreamly important intersecting topics, most especially how racism creates and perpetuates fatphobia and body image issues.

Though I have intersecting identies as a queer non binary disabled person, I am white. The education I got about how I have been and am part of group perpetuating racism both called me in, yet also offered such great love and help for my own journey of body acceptance.

One note,: though I've suffered from eating disorders and body dimorphia, I've been able to recover in recent years and am in a really good place mentally. A good book! King describes the connections and roots of diet culture to racism while discussing the idea of liberation both physically and mentally, essentially.

I really enjoyed the more historical chapters of this book, as King talks about the historical background of "body positivity" movements with marginalized individuals and how white, often smaller-bodied women, have adopted this movement to focus more on cellulite and stretch marks etc.

rather than disabilities or radical love for societally disapproved-of physical appearances. The book also contains a handful of memoir-like snippets throughout that I thought balanced well overall. I think this book is a great reminder to be respectful and loving toward all other people and their bodies even while we're in a society that often judges and values people based on their physical appearances.

Shirin Eskandani. I finished this book in 3 days. King has this amazing ability to take a concept that can be quite difficult to approach and make it so accessible. Her style of writing is engaging as if you are talking to a good friend. She weaves in her own personal stories throughout the book and each chapter ends with reflective prompts.

You're not just reading about body liberation but she invites you to embody it chapter after chapter.

I had read books similar to King's in the past but her approach to this topic left me with insights and a-has that I had never experienced before. I finished this book with a deeper appreciation for my body.

This is truly required reading for anyone who has a body. Marla Burke. Where to even begin? This is one of my favorite books, ever. Chrissy King's book exudes compassion, joy, and love, and reminds us we are so much more than the "shell" of our bodies.

I am probably paraphrasing because I need to get my own copy of this book to write on, not just a library book!

This book is full of things we all need to hear, but I can promise, you haven't heard it this way, ever. There is nothing lecturing, preachy, or pretentious about this book, at all.