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A harrowing collection of sixty narratives—covering over fifty years of shootings in America—written by those most directly affected by school shootings: the survivors.
If I Don’t Make It, I Love You collects more than sixty narratives from school shooting survivors, family members, and community leaders covering fifty years of shootings in America, from the 1966 UT-Austin Tower shooting through May 2018’s Santa Fe shooting.Through this collection, editors Amye Archer and Loren Kleinman offer a vital contribution to the surging national dialogue on gun reform by elevating the voices of those most directly affected by school shootings: the survivors.
NOW WITH A NEW 10TH ANNIVERSARY FOREWORD ON DIET CULTURE THEN AND NOW
For anyone marinated in the toxic diet culture of the 80s, 90s, and beyond, Amye Archer’s raw, witty memoir will feel entirely like home.
When her husband leaves her for a younger, blonder, textbook cliché, Amye is left with a shattered marriage and a stark reality: she weighs 265 pounds, and she’s spent a lifetime using food as a shield. Conditioned by decades of calorie-counting, SlimFast marketing, and the unspoken rule that a woman's worth shrinks with her waistline, she does what she was raised to do—she blames her body.
Seeking refuge, Amye walks into a local Weight Watchers meeting. Enter a misfit band of women led by "Pantsuit Pam," a fierce, unfiltered community-college dropout who takes no prisoners. Over the course of one transformative year, Amye sheds the physical weight, but she quickly discovers a terrifying truth: changing your body doesn't automatically deprogram thirty years of internalized toxic messaging.
Hysterical, heartbreaking, and fiercely honest, Fat Girl, Skinny is a Gen X look at the illusion of the "perfect size," the trauma of emotional eating, and what happens when you finally strip away the armor.
Featuring a brand-new 10th anniversary foreword exploring the evolution of body image and the modern diet landscape, this edition is the ultimate story for anyone who has ever looked in the mirror and thought, “You’d be so pretty… if.”
The war on body image is fought behind closed doors, in dressing rooms, closets, bathrooms, and in the darkest corners of our society. It is a war that has claimed many lives and will continue to do so as it rages, a war rooted in self-hatred and self-loathing, born out of the media and pop-culture’s idea of what it means to be beautiful. Beauty pageants, swimsuit calendars, “thigh gap,” for longer than we care to admit, Americans have allowed our children- girls and boys- to participate in a culture where they are rewarded for how they look rather than their strong minds and hearts.
Thankfully, the body positivity revolution has begun.
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