Body Talk
37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy
Published on 18. August 2020
256 pages
978-1-64375-119-1 (ISBN)
Description
A School Library Journal Best Book of 2020 It's time to bare it all about bodies! We all experience the world in a body, but we don't usually take the time to explore what it really means to have and live within one. Just as every person has a unique personality, every person has a unique body, and every body tells its own story. In Body Talk, thirty-seven writers, models, actors, musicians, and artists share essays, lists, comics, and illustrations--about everything from size and shape to scoliosis, from eating disorders to cancer, from sexuality and gender identity to the use of makeup as armor. Together, they contribute a broad variety of perspectives on what it's like to live in their particular bodies--and how their bodies have helped to inform who they are and how they move through the world. Come on in, turn the pages, and join the celebration of our diverse, miraculous, beautiful bodies!
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08/2020
Algonquin Young Readers
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Kelly Jensen is a former librarian and current editor at Book Riot and her own popular book blog, Stacked. She's the editor of two highly-acclaimed YA anthologies, Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World and (Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health. Her writing has been featured in Bust Magazine, Fortune, Bustle, and more. When not working with words, she teaches yoga, hangs out with a motley crew of pets, and enjoys all of the black licorice no one else wants. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen and her website kellybjensen.com.
Content
- Cover
- Adcard
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
- Scoliosis, Spinal Fusion, and Stomach Punches
- The Body That Betrayed Me
- Do You Know About.?
- Body Take FAQs: What are the best terms to use ofr disable people?
- The Politics of Hair
- And It's Fine
- Body Talk FAQS: What does accessibility mean?
- Embrace Your Booty
- Chapter 2: On the Surface
- The Ghosts of Christmas Past, or When the Angel Learned to Shave
- Sixty-Four Teeth
- Flock
- Not by the Hair on My Chinny Chin Chin
- Body Talk FAQS: How and why do tattoos stay on our skin?
- Visible Scar Club
- Marked at Birth
- Chapter 3: Cosmic Forms
- Fifty Swimsuits
- My Body, My Feelings
- Body Talk FAQs: Is It ok to use the word fat?
- Fat Out Loud
- Thin
- My Body, A Crime
- Body Talk FAQs: What's the difference between body positivity and fat acceptance?
- Non-Skinny People Who I Think are Sexy as Hell
- Loving on Me is Prayer: Queer Journerys into Black Girl Self-Love
- Chapter 4: Below the Belt
- Please Laugh: My Cancer Diagnosis
- Kindred
- Your Complete Guide to Shane's Sex Life
- The Blood on Their Hands
- Body Talk FAQs: What are some normal side effects of menstruation?
- Five Things People Want to Know about Their Junk (and Are Afraid to Ask)
- Cry Like a Girl
- Body Talk FAQs: What is a pink tax?
- Sisterhood, Blood, and Boobs at the London Marathon 2015
- Chapter 5: Things You Cannot See
- When You're "Broken" Like Me
- You Asexuality is Valid Whether or Not You.
- Beneath the Surface
- Body Talk FAQs: What is self-care?
- Trigger Warning
- Maybe It's Maybelline, or Maybe It's Really Not Your Business
- Body Talk FAQs: How important is sleep?
- What's the Deal with Hormones?
- Fart From the Madding Crowd
- Chapter 6: Our Whole Selves
- Body Positive
- Ode to a Spit Cup
- Body Talk FAQS: How do things like straw bans impact disabled people?
- The White Rabbit
- Roars and Whispers
- Five Ass-ential Tyra Tips for Better Body Image
- Looking "Straight"
- How Anyone Can Help Trans People in Their Lives, Written from the Perspective of a Trans Man
- My Back-Brace Year: How I Learned to Stand Tall, Even While Hunched
- Two Tools for Powerful Relaxation
- My Perreo de Shame Playlist
- Further Reading
- Contributor Bios
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
- About the Editor
