Body Stories : Demeter Press : 9781772582543 : 30 Dec 2020 : Body stories capture a nuanced, interconnected, interactive, and complex telling of our understanding, perception, and experience of and through our bodies. Plenty has been published on body image but image suggests a static fixed body, unmitigated through our social interactions and varying times and spaces. This book is not a &;how-to&; guide for fat confidence. It&;s not a compendium of fat suffering. It&;s simply a collection of narratives about what it&;s like to survive in a weight-hating world. It resists the ways that marginalized bodies are being written and researched and put into other people&;s ideas about our existence. The stories in this book are celebratory and are painful. They look at intersections of race and queerness; they destabilize womanhood by presenting a range of possible female embodiments. They explore issues of disability and madness. The full range of possibilities that are collected here give a