Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girl's Guide to Living Life Unapologetically

(Hardback)

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'The truth is, body positivity is for white women. White female bodies being safe is paramount to maintaining white supremacy.' - Stephanie Yeboah, 2017

Twenty-nine-year-old plus-size blogger Stephanie Yeboah has experienced racism and fat-phobia throughout her life. Frombeing bullied at school to being objectified and humiliatedin her dating life,Stephaniesresponse to discrimination has alwaysbeen to change the narrative around body-image and what we see as beautiful. In her debut book,Fattily Ever After, Stephanie Yeboah speaks openly and courageously about her own experience on navigating life as a black, plus-sized woman - telling it how it really is - and how she has managed tofindself-acceptance in a world where judgement and discrimination are rife.

Featuring stories of every day misogynoir and being fetishised, to navigating the cesspit of online dating and experiencing loneliness, Stephanie shares her thoughts on the treatment of black women throughout history, the marginalisation of black, plus-sized women in the media (even within the body-positivity movement) whilst drawing on wisdom from other black fat liberation champions along the way. Peppered with insightful tips andhonest advice and boldly illustrated throughout,this inspiringand powerful book is essential reading for a generation of black, plus-sized women, helpingthem to live their life openly, unapologetically and with confidence.

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Perfect to inspire a younger audience... Yeborah's personality certainly shines through and the book is beautifully illustrated. * The I *

Author Bio

Stephanie Yeboah has been a part of the fat acceptance/body positive community since 2014, and since then, she has written many pieces on her blog, on social media platforms and in external publications on topics such as intersectionality in the body positivity movement, standards of beauty within the movement and self love. This has led her to speak on panels surrounding these subjects at events such as the Women of the World Festival, Africa Utopia, the Youth Select Committee, the London College of Fashion diversity panel and many others.