From Amazon reviews of Hot & Heavy:
"My hats off to Virgie for curating this amazing collection and for the writers for sharing their stories."
Natalie Ingraham
"Literally, within on night of reading (& happily much more of the book to go), my self & life view is different."
Feisty Femme
"I've always been a fan of Virgie Tovar, so I was excited about this book."
gingerlyf
Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion is available at bookstores and on Amazon! Click here to purchase your copy of this revolutionary text now. To get all the latest updates, like us on Facebook.
Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion is a collection of 31 incredible stories written by fierce fat women and includes incredible images from US-based photographer Substantia Jones and Canada-based Girl Crimson. It is an unapologetic call to arms and an ode to liberation and love.
The book is broken up into three sections – Life, Love, Fashion – that look at fat life from each of the respective angles. The book is ultimately about 31 women's journeys once they've made the decision to reject our culture's messaging around their bodies. It is about the unabashed pursuit of life and the demons we must fight to have the things we most value. The stories in the book have enormous range and capture so many facets of women’s lives: April Flores writes about her life in the adult industry as a plus-sized woman, Erin Kilpatrick writes about how her fat literally saved her life during a horrible car crash, Christa Trueman writes about how her daughter became the key to ending a legacy of shame she was taught about her body. The book is incredible in its scope, in its goal, and in its collaborative effort.
As the editor - a fat activist, body image expert and life-long fat girl - this book offers an invitation to our table, where food is not the enemy and all bodies are good bodies. As I reviewed this book it reminded me of what it feels like when a group of my friends – rowdy, brilliant, sexy, fierce, loud fat girls – get together. It feels like home, where my secrets are their secrets and the power of their mystery is momentarily suspended by giggle-inspiring familiarity. The stories are potent and funny, incredible and real. Read my blog about editing Hot & Heavy.
The purpose of this anthology is to re-examine a word that impacts everyone and to recast it as a tool for empowerment. Beyond that it is a book about change and how when we stop apologizing and unleash the fierceness, life becomes about love, liberation and the pursuit of crème brulee.
Contributors include April Flores, Alysia Angel, Deb Malkin (of ReDress), Sydney Lewis (aka, Ginger Snapz), Charlotte Cooper, Tasha Fierce, Margitte Kristjansson (of RiotsNotDiets), Golda Poretsky (of Body Love Revolution) and so, so many more. See a full list of the contributors here.
Want More? Here are some ways you can get to know Hot & Heavy a little more intimately:
"My hats off to Virgie for curating this amazing collection and for the writers for sharing their stories."
Natalie Ingraham
"Literally, within on night of reading (& happily much more of the book to go), my self & life view is different."
Feisty Femme
"I've always been a fan of Virgie Tovar, so I was excited about this book."
gingerlyf
Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion is available at bookstores and on Amazon! Click here to purchase your copy of this revolutionary text now. To get all the latest updates, like us on Facebook.
Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion is a collection of 31 incredible stories written by fierce fat women and includes incredible images from US-based photographer Substantia Jones and Canada-based Girl Crimson. It is an unapologetic call to arms and an ode to liberation and love.
The book is broken up into three sections – Life, Love, Fashion – that look at fat life from each of the respective angles. The book is ultimately about 31 women's journeys once they've made the decision to reject our culture's messaging around their bodies. It is about the unabashed pursuit of life and the demons we must fight to have the things we most value. The stories in the book have enormous range and capture so many facets of women’s lives: April Flores writes about her life in the adult industry as a plus-sized woman, Erin Kilpatrick writes about how her fat literally saved her life during a horrible car crash, Christa Trueman writes about how her daughter became the key to ending a legacy of shame she was taught about her body. The book is incredible in its scope, in its goal, and in its collaborative effort.
As the editor - a fat activist, body image expert and life-long fat girl - this book offers an invitation to our table, where food is not the enemy and all bodies are good bodies. As I reviewed this book it reminded me of what it feels like when a group of my friends – rowdy, brilliant, sexy, fierce, loud fat girls – get together. It feels like home, where my secrets are their secrets and the power of their mystery is momentarily suspended by giggle-inspiring familiarity. The stories are potent and funny, incredible and real. Read my blog about editing Hot & Heavy.
The purpose of this anthology is to re-examine a word that impacts everyone and to recast it as a tool for empowerment. Beyond that it is a book about change and how when we stop apologizing and unleash the fierceness, life becomes about love, liberation and the pursuit of crème brulee.
Contributors include April Flores, Alysia Angel, Deb Malkin (of ReDress), Sydney Lewis (aka, Ginger Snapz), Charlotte Cooper, Tasha Fierce, Margitte Kristjansson (of RiotsNotDiets), Golda Poretsky (of Body Love Revolution) and so, so many more. See a full list of the contributors here.
Want More? Here are some ways you can get to know Hot & Heavy a little more intimately:
- Purchase Hot & Heavy from your favorite bookstore (if they don't have it in stock you can ask them to order it) or on Amazon
- For exclusive updates, like Hot & Heavy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/HotandHeavy
- Come to the Hot & Heavy reading on February 13 at 7pm in Berkeley at Pegasus Books!
- Watch Frank of CBS 5's Bay Sunday interview Virgie about Hot & Heavy!
