Hot & Heavy

Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love, & Fashion

By: Virgie Tovar

Narrated by: Joy Nash

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.

Groundbreaking 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.

©2012-2050 Virginia Zolala-Tovar (P)2014 Seal Press

Great for all gals!

If you could sum up Hot & Heavy in three words, what would they be?

Hot. Heavy. Honest.

What other book might you compare Hot & Heavy to and why?

Things no one will tell fat girls

What does Joy Nash bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

sas

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Hold on to your glitter

Any additional comments?

Easy to listen to!

love, love, love!

I can't put into words how much I live this book!It makes me feel so good about myself and my body!

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I didn't like her personality i feel like she care so much about men attention and how they view her rather than achieving real things,you should be ashamed of yourself at this age you think like a teenager.