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Fat Poets Speak 2

Author : Edited by Frannie Zellman
Publisher : Pearlsong Press
ISBN 13 : 1597190802
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Fat Poets Speak 2 written by Edited by Frannie Zellman and published by Pearlsong Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They're baack! The poets from Fat Poets Speak: Voices of the Fat Poets' Society again embrace their lives as fat women in a thin-loving culture and write poems about negotiating their days among different, sometimes dangerous and hate-filled worlds. But they are more than just their voices. They are women who live and love with gusto, passion and yearning—they live and love fatly. Fat Poets Speak 2: Living and Loving Fatly takes you on a journey through the days of these deeply angry, loving, creative poets. Experience the stages and states through which they travel in the space of 24 hours, in the space of a week, through the months of the year. Laugh, cry, commiserate and celebrate as the poets guide you through highs and lows, sadness and joy, grim defiance and determination and stunning pinnacles of loving and understanding. Especially lush and sensuous poems are starred for the benefit of readers. The contributors from the first volume, Fat Poets Speak: Voices of the Fat Poets' Society, are back—with the exception of Corinna Makris Winter, whom the poets hope will be able to join them again in the future. This second volume proudly adds Eileen Rosensteel and Mary Ray Worley, founder of the Fat Poets' Society at a NAAFA convention in the Boston area in 2006. Fat Poets Speak 2 also features one poem each by four new voices, activists in the fat acceptance movement. The Fat Poets' Society is donating royalties from the first volume, Fat Poets Speak, to the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA). Royalties from Fat Poets Speak 2 will be donated to fat activist Ragen Chastain.

Fat Poets Speak 3

Author : Frannie Zellman
Publisher : Pearlsong Press
ISBN 13 : 1597190969
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Fat Poets Speak 3 written by Frannie Zellman and published by Pearlsong Press. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fat Poets' Society writes about their joys, sorrows, anger, sadness, and pleasure at living in a world that constantly tries to reject and inhibit fat people. Volume 3 of the Fat Poets Speak series, Fat Poets Speak 3: FatDance Flying, comprises poems in which the poets alternately dance and fly, moving their feet and their bodies and then growing wings as they encompass the earth, above the earth, and finally, the sky, breaking the bodily barrier. To all who choose to read this volume, they say, "Come dance and fly with us." The Fat Poets' Society began at a writing workshop at the 2006 convention of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA). The first volume in the series, Fat Poets Speak: Voices of the Fat Poets' Society, was published by Pearlsong Press in May 2009 and praised as groundbreaking.

Fat Poets Speak

Author : Kathy Barron
Publisher : Pearlsong Press
ISBN 13 : 1597190519
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Fat Poets Speak written by Kathy Barron and published by Pearlsong Press. This book was released on 2009-05-06 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart, sassy, sensual and soulful―Five women share the poetry and process of fat embodiment. In a sociocultural climate in which fat bodies are considered diseased and blamed for everything from rising medical costs to global warning, it takes courage for fat women, especially, to express anything but shame about their bodies. Fat Poets Speak is part of and intended for the growing movement reclaiming "fat" as a valid way to exist in the world. The Fat Poets' Society was born during a poetry workshop at the 2006 annual convention of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, a civil rights organization. The poets are donating their royalties to NAAFA.

Poems of Reckoning and Hope

Author : Félix Garmendía
Publisher : Pearlsong Press
ISBN 13 : 1597191000
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Poems of Reckoning and Hope written by Félix Garmendía and published by Pearlsong Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his second collection of poems, we meet Félix Garmendía again after he has been settled in Washington Heights for years with his husband, Denis. With Denis, he and his wheelchair Purple Raven swing around Fort Tryon Park, the streets, the building, and the apartment in all seasons. There Félix bears witness to some of the most frightening occurrences of the last fifty years: the disinformation and bigotry of a feral, out-of-control administration, the explosion of racism, the pandemic, and the storming of the Capitol. Through his eyes we watch exhausted healthcare workers exit hospitals, still wearing their equipment, to a universal round of applause, played out differently in every New York neighborhood. We see Black people murdered by police. We shiver with anger at the blend of authoritarianism and misinformed rage that almost guts the heart of our democracy. And yet through it all, through Félix, we also find the grace and courage to laugh and find our own oases of hope. Félix is a poet, HIV+ survivor, and disabled due to Inclusion Body Myositis. He survived his early years in conservative Catholic Puerto Rico and arrived in Manhattan, New York City, in 1988. His poems narrate his life as a gay activist, poet, and storyteller in the face of illness and intolerance. Because of his Inclusion Body Myositis, Félix has become adept at typing with one finger. He has also become incredibly, enchantingly adept at capturing the mood of a year, a day, a season, a place. As in his first poetry collection, Flying On Invisible Wings, Félix sculpts with words the very heart of his wishes, hopes, failings, and cares. But here they are often the wishes, hopes, failings, and cares of a nation, as well. With Félix, we emerge from the deluge that the last few years have brought into our lives. We find the calm place again.

The Politics of Size

Author : Ragen Chastain
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Size written by Ragen Chastain and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an unprecedented opportunity for people to hear from a simultaneously ostracized, ridiculed, and ignored group: fat Americans. Find out how the members of this very diverse group of people describe their actual lived experiences, quality of life, hopes and dreams, and demands. Our society is body-size obsessed. The result? An environment where "fat people" are consistently shunned and discussed disparagingly behind their backs. Although fat people typically bear the brunt of the institutionalized oppression around being oversized, pervasive closeminded attitudes about body size in America affect everyone of all sizes—from people who are shamed for being too thin to those whose lives revolve around the fear of becoming fat. This book talks about a topic that is important to all readers, regardless of their physical size, providing an anthology of first-person accounts of what it's like to be part of the fat-acceptance movement and on the front lines of activism in the "war on obesity." The Politics of Size: Perspectives from the Fat Acceptance Movement supplies a frank discussion of the issues surrounding being fat and the associated health concerns—both physical and mental—and reframes the discussion about obesity from a medical issue to a social one. The essays serve to correct misinformation about obesity and fat people that is commonly accepted by the general public, such as the idea that "fat" and "healthy" are mutually exclusive. Subject matter covered includes fat-friendly workplace policies; fat dating experiences; and the intersections of being fat and also a person of color, a person with disabilities, a transgender person, or a member of another sub-group of society.

Fire Island and Their Sister

Author : Félix Garmendía
Publisher : Pearlsong Press
ISBN 13 : 1597191027
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Fire Island and Their Sister written by Félix Garmendía and published by Pearlsong Press. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his third book of poetry, Félix Garmendía celebrates the popular LGBTQ+ vacation destinations of Fire Island and commemorates Titania, a trans woman of Manhattan. In his first book, Flying on Invisible Wings, Félix lives parts of his lonely childhood, journeys to the USA, becomes triumphantly accepted. Contracts HIV, hangs on, HIV becomes undetectable. Finds everlasting love, gets married. Then, as if daring him to stay happy, IBM—Inclusion Body Myositis— lands him in a wheelchair. He continues to live and love with his husband in Washington/Hudson Heights in Manhattan, and finds his poetic voice. Félix’s second book, Poems of Reckoning and Hope, explores his neighborhood, the pandemic, and January 6 and its ramifications. Yet he continues to hold out the possibility of hope through the USA’s dire reckoning. Now, in his third book, Fire Island and Their Sister, Félix sails out to Fire Island. Then we meet Titania, trans woman of Manhattan. As we read Félix’s loving and detailed poems about both, we enter the next stage of his life. And we cheer his deep and unquestionable support for and celebration of the people he knows and loves best.

Under the Pomegranate Tree

Author : Leslie Moïse
Publisher : Pearlsong Press
ISBN 13 : 1597190985
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Under the Pomegranate Tree written by Leslie Moïse and published by Pearlsong Press. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ancient Ammon, a sheltered young woman fleeing her rich and powerful father’s plans for her marriage is thrust into a violent world in which her only tools – or weapons – are her knowledge of plants and healing. Under the Pomegranate Tree is a stand-alone historical novel, but does contain a character featured in the author's historical novel Judith, which is based on the apocryphal Book of Judith.

Adam & Evelyn

Author : Pat Ballard
Publisher : Pearlsong Press
ISBN 13 : 1597190829
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Adam & Evelyn written by Pat Ballard and published by Pearlsong Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn Carmichael arrived in Nashville, Tennessee with hopes of starting a new life for her and her four-year-old daughter far, far away from her abusive ex-husband. She was absolutely sure she could make a life for them without the help of any man on Earth. And then she met Pastor Adam Singletary. From his vantage point on the stage, Adam Singletary’s body went very still as he watched the woman slip quietly, otherwise unnoticed, into the back of the church and take a seat on the last row. She set her purse on the floor and then looked up directly into his eyes. An arc of unseen electricity connected them, jolting his body to the center of his being. She’s finally here, he thought.

Flying On Invisible Wings

Author : Félix Garmendía
Publisher : Pearlsong Press
ISBN 13 : 1597190942
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Flying On Invisible Wings written by Félix Garmendía and published by Pearlsong Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small town boy journeys from Ponce, Puerto Rico to Manhattan: a riff on many famous movies and books. Except in this case the boy is gay, confused, frightened, and trying to find where he will fit in and be happy. The story has a happy ending—of sorts. Boy from Ponce finds companionship, happiness, and his proud gay identity in the Big City. But it also has a sad ending—of sorts. Boy from Ponce finds out he has HIV, almost dies, gets almost well, then meets another illness—Inclusion Body Myositis. He is confined to a wheelchair. And yet— In the same year he becomes wheelchair-bound, the man rediscovers an old love: writing poetry. He begins to write. He writes more. He becomes adept. His poetry soars. "This," he says, "is what I should have been doing all along." As you read the poems of Félix Garmendía, you will say to yourself, "This is what I should have been reading all along." You will discern influences from Whitman, from Neruda, and also from the art of Frida Kahlo, with whom Felix feels a particularly strong kinship as a disabled artist. After all, he says, they both fly on invisible wings. In this book you will discover poems light as the summer art in Fort Tryon Park, poems as down and raunchy as a honky-tonk on Canal Street, poems as pensive and stately as the Statue of Liberty and her pedestal. For in many ways this book also pays homage to New York, Félix's fiercely loved home since 1988. Happy, sad, frightened, soaring, ecstatic, loving. Moods galore and then some. Images that magic you from deep anguish to utter excitement and bliss. Come fly with Félix. You will never read anything quite like these poems. You may even find your own invisible wings.

If We Were Snowflakes

Author : Barbara D'Souza
Publisher : Pearlsong Press
ISBN 13 : 1597190926
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book If We Were Snowflakes written by Barbara D'Souza and published by Pearlsong Press. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shy, fat Hannah Smith has a popular, thin twin sister, a slender mother obsessed with cleaning, and a fat father in prison for violating federal laws against distributing junk food. The U.S. government controls access to chocolate and other foods considered fattening. Parents of fat youth must pay a special tax or their children must go to a Laboratory School for the Weight Challenged—A.K.A. "Fat School"— where they are forced—and shamed—to lose weight. As her father's parole hearing nears, Hannah wants desperately to find out who turned her father in to the police. She enlists her best friend and secret crush, Christian, in her investigation. But with Hannah's father's businesses faltering, her mother can no longer pay her Fat Tax, and Hannah is sent to Fat School. She continues to search for her father's betrayer, but soon finds herself drawn into a more frightening mystery: the largest teenagers at Fat School are disappearing. How far will Hannah go to find the truth?

Other Nations

Author : Maria Famà
Publisher : Pearlsong Press
ISBN 13 : 1597190888
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Other Nations written by Maria Famà and published by Pearlsong Press. This book was released on 2017-06-25 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Fama's poetry takes us into the hearts and souls of animals -- domesticated, feral, captive, free.Her poems challenge the notion that animals are on this planet solely for humans to use and exploit. Instead, the poems recognize the individuality of each animal with the view that animals are, as the naturalist Henry Beston saw them, "other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth."

Heretics

Author : Mary Saracino
Publisher : Pearlsong Press
ISBN 13 : 1597190748
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Heretics written by Mary Saracino and published by Pearlsong Press. This book was released on 2014-06-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1480s, twin sister healers in a remote village in the mountainous Barbagia region of Sardinia encounter a heretic-obsessed Spanish priest. Antonio Albóndiga is sent to Sardinia after mishaps in his homeland, and is eventually banished to the village of Orune. Half the villagers—including Sarda and Shardana—follow a pre-Christian religion, while the other half observe a makeshift version of Catholicism and paganism. Hate holds the priest's heart hostage, and he scorns Sarda and Shardana's adherence to ancient ways. Despite their suspicions, the healers and their village attempt not only to accept the stranger but to transform him.

Soul Mothers' Wisdom

Author : Bette J. Freedson
Publisher : Pearlsong Press
ISBN 13 : 1597190780
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Soul Mothers' Wisdom written by Bette J. Freedson and published by Pearlsong Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical social worker Bette J. Freedson shares seven key insights she has identified through years of workshops, counseling sessions, and her own self-examination as a single mother. Millions of heroic single mothers around the world, poor and rich, are rearing their own or someone else's children. Deaths, separations and divorces, and military deployments send many more women into single mother status every year, while other "hidden" single mothers bring up children virtually alone as fathers are ill, disabled, disengaged or just plain disinterested. In Soul Mothers' Wisdom: Seven Insights for the Single Mother Bette Freedson gently guides often-overwhelmed single mothers to a strong personal identity, a rediscovery of resilience, strength, and courage, and an affirmation of parenting purpose. Soul Mothers' Wisdom helps the woman parenting on her own understand that she can create the life she wants and become the woman she desires to be, transforming challenges into opportunities and solutions, chaos into calm, and discovering (or re-discovering) all she has to offer to her children and her self. Mental health professionals agree—children have a better chance of becoming emotionally healthy adults when their mothers' choices are guided by the wisdom that emanates from a solid core of self, i.e., "soul." Soul Mothers' Wisdom: Seven Insights for the Single Mother offers single mothers the knowledge, counseling and affirmation to help them and their children thrive. "This is a fine book full of support for single parents who have to face the job of raising children alone, and having to share them with another caregiver when they return to work," says T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., .former host of the Emmy-award-winning TV show What Every Baby Knows. "I would advise all single mothers to read it."

Once Upon Another Time

Author : Pat Ballard
Publisher : Pearlsong Press
ISBN 13 : 1597190861
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Once Upon Another Time written by Pat Ballard and published by Pearlsong Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 21st century woman is transported to 1870s Texas, where she must decided whether to stay with the man she loves or return to her own time.

ASAP Nanny

Author : Pat Ballard
Publisher : Pearlsong Press
ISBN 13 : 1597190837
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book ASAP Nanny written by Pat Ballard and published by Pearlsong Press. This book was released on 2013-12-25 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melanie Brock could not believe that she, the daughter of wealthy New York City parents, was homeless in Dallas, Texas. She'd been laid off from her job at a local car dealership during a round of cutbacks. So here she was—twenty-seven years old, no job, no home, sleeping in her car, with just enough money to buy a little more gas and a little food if she only ate one good meal a day. And that would only be for a week. Exhausting every avenue for work, but knowing she'd rather go hungry than crawl back to her parents and ask for help, Melanie was at a loss as to her next option. Until she saw a flyer on the windshield of her car that read "NANNY NEEDED, ASAP." Using the cell phone she was about to lose, she made the call that would change her life forever. ASAP Nanny is a nine-chapter novella. The ebook also contains the first chapters of all of Pat Ballard's books, so it's a perfect way to dip a little further into the Queen of Rubenesque Romance's universe. It's a smorgasbord of rubenesque romance and body positivity!

The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies

Author : Cat Pausé
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000367479
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies written by Cat Pausé and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies brings together a diverse body of work from around the globe and across a wide range of Fat Studies topics and perspectives. The first major collection of its kind, it explores the epistemology, ontology, and methodology of fatness, with attention to issues such as gender and sexuality, disability and embodiment, health, race, media, discrimination, and pedagogy. Presenting work from both scholarly writers and activists, this volume reflects a range of critical perspectives vital to the expansion of Fat Studies and thus constitutes an essential resource for researchers in the field.

Revenge Body

Author : Rachel Wiley
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1638340137
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Revenge Body written by Rachel Wiley and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 Stonewall Book Award – Barbara Gittings Literature Award for Poetry Winner 2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards Finalist Revenge Body is Rachel Wiley’s third collection of poetry, full of the sharp wit and bold honesty we know and love from Rachel. Wiley invites her readers to join her on a journey filled with righteous anger, Black identity, magic, mental health, navigating maternal relationships, and the love and loss that comes from a breakup.