From Amazon reviews of Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion:
"Literally, within one night of reading (& happily much more of the book to go), my self & life view is different."
"REQUIRED READING for anyone who is postponing life until they reach a smaller size and anyone who isn't already blessed with fantastic, full-of-themselves fat people in their lives. Virgie Tovar has assembled these powerful voices into a funny, enlightening, sexy and important book. HATE LOSS NOW!"
"In reading about these women's lives, I thought, "That will never be me. I just can't love my body 100% of the time so unabashedly. I don't have the strength." And that's where I made my mistake. That is what this collection of writings showed me: I don't have to have the strength 100% of time. The difference is knowing that I always deserve to be treated with respect and dignity, even on those days when I might not be strong enough to say it out loud."
"I enjoyed this from start to finish. Reading about these amazing women, and their stories of how they came into their own power, was absorbing and very uplifting."
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 is the book I wish I had when I was spending my days nearly starving myself because I thought that was what I had to do to be beautiful or worth anyone's time. 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, Sydney Lewis, 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.
Watch this interview on CBS Bay Sunday that aired upon the book's release:
"Literally, within one night of reading (& happily much more of the book to go), my self & life view is different."
"REQUIRED READING for anyone who is postponing life until they reach a smaller size and anyone who isn't already blessed with fantastic, full-of-themselves fat people in their lives. Virgie Tovar has assembled these powerful voices into a funny, enlightening, sexy and important book. HATE LOSS NOW!"
"In reading about these women's lives, I thought, "That will never be me. I just can't love my body 100% of the time so unabashedly. I don't have the strength." And that's where I made my mistake. That is what this collection of writings showed me: I don't have to have the strength 100% of time. The difference is knowing that I always deserve to be treated with respect and dignity, even on those days when I might not be strong enough to say it out loud."
"I enjoyed this from start to finish. Reading about these amazing women, and their stories of how they came into their own power, was absorbing and very uplifting."
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 is the book I wish I had when I was spending my days nearly starving myself because I thought that was what I had to do to be beautiful or worth anyone's time. 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, Sydney Lewis, 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.
Watch this interview on CBS Bay Sunday that aired upon the book's release: