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"Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing. To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society, passed over for housing and jobs, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals, fat Black people in the United States are subject to sociopolitically sanctioned discrimination,...
223) Cabello como el mío
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Cabello como el mio is un libro fácil y divertido de leer que sigue a una niña pequeña a la que no le gusta que su cabello rizado natural se ve distinto a el de otros niños y niñas a su alrededor. En su búsqueda a encontrara alguien con cabello como el suyo, se da cuenta que todos somos únicos y especiales en nuestra propia manera.
Hair Like Mine is a fun and easy read following a little girl who doesn't like that her naturally curly hair...
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Kamilla has a wonderful singing voice, but she does not want to sign up for the Memorial Middle School musical because she sees herself as overweight, even though the doctor tells her she is not--so can exercise and the support of her family and friends help her overcome her negative image and lead her to the starring role her talent demands?
228) Locker room diaries: the naked truth about women, body image, and re-imagining the "perfect" body
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229) The Watchers
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This book contains the photographer's series of photographs "Wait Watchers" in which she photographs the reactions of passers-by to her presence, which went viral in 2013.
232) No fat chicks: how big business profits by making women hate their bodies--and how to fight back
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