Notes

Prologue

1. B. Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (London: Penguin, 2012), 69.

2. M. Williamson, “The Spiritual Purpose of Relationships” (lecture, Los Angeles, January 3, 2016).

Chapter 1

1. Adam Hayes, “Scalability,” Investopedia, March 20, 2020, https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/scalability.asp.

2. S. L. Cano, “Angela Davis to Speak March 4 at New York City Unity Rally,” People’s World, February 28, 2017, http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/angela-davis-to-speak-march-4-at-new-york-city-unity-rally.

3. L. S. Cahill and M. A. Farley, Embodiment, Morality, and Medicine (Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995).

4. M. Moseley, “Ten Things to Know about the Heartbreaking Story of Kalief Browder,” Essence, March 2, 2017, http://www.essence.com/news/facts-about-kalief-browder-rikers-prison-documentary-JayZ.

5. C. Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2013).

6. Maureen Benson is a general rock star and founder and CEO of the organization Education Is a Vital Sign.

7. Definition of radical, Dictionary.com, http://www.dictionary.com/browse/radical, accessed July 29, 2020.

8. N. Ghandnoosh, “Race and Punishment: Racial Perceptions of Crime and Support for Punitive Policies,” The Sentencing Project, October 3, 2014, http://sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Race-and-Punishment.pdf.

9. C. Liebowitz, “Explaining Inspiration Porn to Non-Disabled People,” The Body Is Not an Apology, September 24, 2015, https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/explaining-inspiration-porn-to-non-disabled-people/.

10. “Africans in America,” PBS, January 12, 2017, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2narr5.html.

11. “Voting Rights Act Timeline,” ACLU, March 4, 2005, https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/voting_rights_act_timeline20111222.pdf.

12. Amend the Code for Marriage Equality Act of 2015, H.R. 2976, 114th Congress (2015–2016), July 8, 2015, https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2976.

13. D. Masci, E. Scuipac, and M. Lipka, Gay Marriage around the World, Pew Research Center’s Religion and Public Life Project, October 28, 2019, https://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/gay-marriage-around-the-world/.

14. C. Domonoske and J. Doubek, “North Carolina Repeals Portions of Controversial ‘Bathroom Bill,’” NPR, March 30, 2017, http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/30/522009335/north-carolina-lawmakers-governor-announce-compromise-to-repeal-bathroom-bill.

15. “Persons with a Disability: Labor Force Characteristics,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 21, 2016, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/disabl.htm.

16. K. Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color,” Stanford Law Review 43, no. 6 (1991): 1241, doi:10.2307/1229039.

17. Hanne Blank, “Hanne Blank’s Real Women,” Behind Body Peace, July 18, 2011, bodypeaceblog.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/hanne-blanks-real-women/.

18. D. B. Taylor, “Mama Cax, Amputee Model and Disability Activist, Dies at 30,” New York Times, December 22, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/fashion/Mama-cax-dead.html.

19. J. Gallagher, “‘Memories’ Pass between Generations,” BBC, December 1, 2013, http://www.bbc.com/news/health-25156510.

20. “The Death of Emmett Till,” History.com, http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till, accessed July 29, 2020.

21. J. Sauers, “French Elle’s First ‘Curvy’ Issue Introduces Us to Tara Lynn, Capes,” Jezebel, March 30, 2010, https://jezebel.com/5505614/french-elles-first-curvy-issue-introduces-us-to-tara-lynn-capes/.

22. S. Taylor, “Mission, Vision, and History,” The Body Is Not an Apology, https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/about-tbinaa/history-mission-and-vision/ accessed July 29, 2020.

23. “Acceptance vs. Resignation,” Secular Buddhism, February 24, 2016, https://secularbuddhism.com/acceptance-vs-resignation/.

24. T. R. Echeverria, “Audre Lorde: A Black, Lesbian, Mother, Socialist, Warrior, Poet,” Solidarity, February 18, 2012, https://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/3525.

25. Health at Every Size supports people of all sizes in addressing their health directly by encouraging the adoption of healthy behaviors. It is an inclusive movement, recognizing that our social characteristics, such as our size, race, national origin, sexuality, gender, disability status, and other attributes, are assets. It acknowledges and challenges the structural and systemic forces that impinge on living well. See https://haescommunity.com/.

26. D. Burgard, “The Problem with Poodle Science,” YouTube video, February 23, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H89QQfXtc-k.

27. Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia (New York: New York University Press, 2019).

28. “You are in the right place” is a common greeting for newcomers to twelve-step meetings.

Chapter 2

1. R. Bender, “The Age Girls Become Self-Conscious about Their Bodies,” Yahoo! News, January 12, 2016, https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-age-girls-become-self-1338923817869366.html.

2. “Webinars and Online Courses,” The Body Is Not an Apology, https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/radical-education/webinars/, accessed July 29, 2020.

3. For preferred terminology, refer to the website Gender Diversity, “Elementary Schools,” Gender Diversity, November 6, 2017, www.genderdiversity.org/best-practices-schools/elementary/.

4. A. H. Grossman and A. R. D’Augelli, “Transgender Youth and Life-Threatening Behaviors,” Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 37, no. 5 (2007): 527–537, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1521/suli.2007.37.5.527/abstract.

5. M. B. Brewer, “In-Group Bias in the Minimal Intergroup Situation: A Cognitive-Motivational Analysis,” Psychological Bulletin 86, no. 2 (1979): 307–324, http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1979-25967-001.

6. “DBR MTV Bias Survey Summary,” April 2014, p. 3, https://www.evernote.com/shard/s4/sh/5edc56c3-f8c8-483f-a459-2c47192d0bb8/a0ba0ce883749f4e613d6a6338bb4455/res/5cff2161-7c98-4c9a-9830-a900c7496644/DBR_MTV_Bias_Survey_Executive_Summary.pdf.

7. “Children, Teens, Media, and Body Image: A Common Sense Media Research Brief,” Children, Teens, Media, and Body Image, Common Sense Media, January 21, 2015, www.commonsensemedia.org/research/children-teens-media-and-body-image.

8. S. Sumapong, “Toxic Masculinity and the Negative Effects on Men,” Good Men Project, November 18, 2016, https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/toxic-masculinity-and-the-negative-effects-on-men-babb/.

9. C. Knorr, “Boys and Body Image,” Common Sense Media, January 5, 2015, https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/boys-and-body-image#.

10. bell hooks, All about Love (New York: Harper Perennial, 2000).

11. Adrienne M. Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Chico, CA: AK Press, 2019).

12. J. Bakutyte, “A Look at the History of Women’s Beauty,” A Plus, November 5, 2014, http://aplus.com/a/history-female-beauty-standards/.

13. K. Gaylor, “A Royal Queer: Hatshepsut and Gender Construction in Ancient Egypt,” Shift Journal 8 (2015): 1–11, http://shiftjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/4_Gaylord.pdf.

14. “Timeline: Transgender through History,” Doc Zone, CBC/Radio Canada, April 10, 2013, http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/features/timeline-transgender-through-history.

15. D. R. Roediger, Working toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs (New York: Basic Books, 2010).

16. “Ad Age Advertising Century: Timeline,” Ad Age, March 29, 1999, http://adage.com/article/special-report-the-advertising-century/ad-age-advertising-century-timeline/143661/.

17. A. Guttmann, “Global Advertising Spending 2019,” Statista, January 8, 2020, www.statista.com/statistics/236943/global-advertising-spending/.

18. Bethany Biron, “Beauty Has Blown Up to Be a $532 Billion Industry—and Analysts Say That These 4 Trends Will Make It Even Bigger,” Business Insider, July 9, 2019, www.businessinsider.com/beauty-multibillion-industry-trends-future-2019-7.

19. “World Economic Outlook Database October 2019,” International Monetary Fund, October 2019, www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2019/02/weodata/weorept.aspx?pr.x=64...

20. “Self-Image and Media Influence,” Just Say Yes, February 28, 2017, https://www.justsayyes.org/topics/self-image-media-influences/.

21. Alexis Bennett, “Women Spend on Average $15,000 on Beauty Products—Here’s Proof,” SELF, May 25, 2017, www.self.com/story/amount-of-money-women-spend-on-beauty-products.

22. “Hot, in style, popular, ‘damn, that song was poppin’ back in the day,’” definition of poppin’, Urban Dictionary, https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=poppin, accessed July 29, 2020.

23. G. Beemyn, “Transgender Terminology,” Cornell.edu, April 27, 2017, https://hr.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/trans%20terms.pdf.

24. “Map of Countries That Criminalise LGBT People,” Human Dignity Trust, www.humandignitytrust.org/lgbt-the-law/map-of-criminalisation/, accessed August 14, 2020.

25. “Health Requirements,” New Zealand Immigration Concepts, https://www.new-zealand-immigration.com/, accessed July 29, 2020.

26. Susan M. Schweik and Robert A. Wilson, “Ugly Laws,” Eugenics Archives, February 5, 2015, https://eugenicsarchive.ca/discover/tree/54d39e27f8a0ea4706000009.

27. H. Schwarz, “Following Reports of Forced Sterilization of Female Prison Inmates, California Passes Ban,” Washington Post, September 26, 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/09/26/following-reports-of-forced-sterilization-of-female-prison-inmates-california-passes-ban/.

28. A. N. Ltd, “With This Ring, I Thee Abduct,” Times of Malta, February 25, 2015, http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150225/local/with-this-ring-i-thee-abduct.557594.

29. D. Artavia, “Greece Reinstates Forced HIV Testing,” Plus, July 22, 2013, http://www.hivplusmag.com/case-studies/world-news/2013/07/22/greece-reinstates-forced-hiv-testing.

30. “History of Women Governors,” Center for American Women in Politics, http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/history-women-governors, accessed July 29, 2020.

31. “Fast Facts about American Governors,” Rutgers University, February 27, 2017, http://governors.rutgers.edu/on-governors/us-governors/fast-facts-about-american-governors/.

32. “Female World Leaders Currently in Power,” World Bank, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SG.GEN.PARL.ZS, accessed July 29, 2020.

33. N. Wolf, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used against Women (New York: Harper Perennial, 2002), 187.

34. “List of Minority Governors and Lieutenant Governors in the United States,” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, July 31, 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minority_governors_and_lieutenant_governors_in_the_United_States.

35. I. Langtree, “List of Physically Disabled World Leaders and Politicians,” Disabled-World.com, July 29, 2015, https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/awareness/famous/leaders-pollies.php.

36. C. Domonoske, “For First Time, Openly LGBTQIAA+ Governor Elected: Oregon’s Kate Brown,” NPR, November 9, 2016, http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/09/501338927/for-first-time-openly-LGBTQIAA+-governor-elected-oregons-kate-brown.

37. S. Tavernise, “U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High,” New York Times, April 22, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/health/us-suicide-rate-surges-to-a-30-year-high.html.

38. R. Gabrielson, R. Grochowski Jones, and E. Sagara, “Deadly Force, in Black and White,” ProPublica, December 24, 2014, https://www.propublica.org/article/deadly-force-in-black-and-white.

39. “More Than 115 Anti-LGBTQIAA+ Bills Introduced in 30 States,” Human Rights Campaign, March 22, 2017, https://www.hrc.org/blog/more-than-115-anti-LGBTQIAA+-bills-introduced-in-30-states/.

40. F. Fox, “Leelah Alcorn’s Suicide: Conversion Therapy Is Child Abuse,” Time, January 8, 2015, http://time.com/3655718/leelah-alcorn-suicide-transgender-therapy.

41. Definition of terrorism, Merriam-Webster.com, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terrorism/, accessed July 29, 2020.

42. “What Is Body Terrorism?” The Body Is Not an Apology, accessed January 29, 2017, https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/about-tbinaa/what-is-body-terrorism/, accessed July 29, 2020.

Chapter 3

1. From the website of Davide Carrera, accessed April 23, 2017, http://www.davidecarrera.com/.

2. “Arabs as Terrorists: The Power of Media Images,” Society of Personality and Social Psychology, December 9, 2012, https://spsptalks.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/arabs-as-terrorists-the-power-of-media-images.

3. A. Willingham, “Chances of a Refugee Killing You—and Other Surprising Immigration Stats,” CNN.com, March 6, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/30/politics/immigration-stats-by-the-numbers-trnd/.

4. J. E. Short, “How Much Media?” Business.tivo.com, October 2013, https://business.tivo.com/content/dam/tivo/resources/tivo-HMM-Consumer-Report-2013_Release.pdf.

5. E. Ensler, “Suddenly My Body,” TED video, December 2011, https://www.ted.com/talks/eve_ensler_suddenly_my_body.

6. N. Waheed, “Three,” Words for the Year, June 1, 2015, https://wordsfortheyear.com/2015/06/04/three-by-nayyirah-waheed/.

7. A. C. Liebowitz, “Here’s What Neurodiversity Is—And What It Means for Feminism,” Everyday Feminism, March 3, 2016, http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/03/neurodiversity-101/.

Chapter 4

1. “Understanding Implicit Bias,” Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, 2015, http://kirwaninstitute.osu.edu/research/understanding-implicit-bias/.

2. L. Watson, Lilla: International Women’s Network, January 27, 2010, https://lillanetwork.wordpress.com/about/.

3. G. L. Boggs, Living for Change: An Autobiography (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016), 146.

4. Slavery by Another Name (documentary), directed by Samuel D. Pollard, aired on PBS, February 13, 2012, http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/convict-leasing/.

5. “Black Codes,” History.com, 2010, http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-codes.

6. M. Alexander, The New Jim Crow (New York: New Press, 2012), 2.

7. “Six Other Times the US Has Banned Immigrants,” Al Jazeera, January 29, 2017, http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/01/times-banned-immigrants-170128183528941.html.

8. “Immigration,” Center for HIV Law and Policy, https://www.hivlawandpolicy.org/issues/immigration, accessed July 29, 2020.

9. D. Merica, “Hillary Clinton Speaks with Black Lives Matter Activists,” CNN, August 18, 2015, http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/18/politics/hillary-clinton-black-lives-matter-meeting/.

10. “Hillary Clinton: Equality Is about Changing Hearts and Minds,” YouTube video, October 21, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuxdbBPSnas.

11. Washington Governor Jay Inslee, “Inslee Statement in Response to Washingtonians Detained at Canadian Border,” January 6, 2020, https://www.governor.wa.gov/news-media/inslee-statement-response-washingtonians-detained-canadian-border.

12. M. Inman, “You’re Not Going to Believe What I Am about to Tell You,” The Oatmeal, July 23, 2017, http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe.

13. J. L. Anderson, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (New York: Grove Press, 2010), 178.

14. Alcoholics Anonymous, “A.A. Big Book Promises,” https://step12.com/promises.html.

Chapter 5

1. A. Brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing World (Chico, CA: AK Press, 2017).

2. L. Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp, 2018), 78.

3. R. Puhl, S. Phelan, J. Nadglowski, and T. Kyle, “Overcoming Weight Bias in the Management of Patients with Diabetes and Obesity,” Clinical Diabetes 34, no. 1 (2016): 44–50, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26807008/.

4. Original Intuitive Eating Pros, “10 Principles of Intuitive Eating,” https://www.intuitiveeating.org/10-principles-of-intuitive-eating/, accessed July 29, 2020.

5. Health at Every Size Community Resources, https://haescommunity.com/, accessed July 29, 2020.

6. Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia (New York: New York University Press, 2019).

7. Association for Size Diversity and Health, https://www.sizediversityandhealth.org/, accessed July 29, 2020.

8. NOLOSE: The Revolution Just Got Bigger, https://nolose.org/, accessed July 29, 2020.

9. Sins Invalid, https://www.sinsinvalid.org/.

10. “10 Principles of Disability Justice,” Sins Invalid, September 17, 2015, https://www.sinsinvalid.org/blog/10-principles-of-disability-justice.

11. “Queer Like, Escaping Definition,” Decolonize the Queer, https://decolonizethequeer.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/queer-like-escaping-definition/.

12. Visual artist and founder of Culture Strike Favianna Rodriguez was the first person I heard using the term compost to describe transforming unhealthy systems and behaviors into fuel for a new way of being. Check her out at https://www.favianna.com/.

13. Walter J. Williams, “The ‘Two-Spirit’ People of Indigenous North Americans,” Guardian, October 11, 2010, https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/oct/11/two-spirit-people-north-america.

14. History, “Stonewall Riots,” June 26, 2020, https://www.history.com/topics/gay-rights/the-stonewall-riots.

15. “Transgender Day of Remembrance,” GLAAD, https://www.glaad.org/tdor.

16. Diffen, “Equality vs. Equity,” https://www.diffen.com/difference/Equality-vs-Equity, accessed July 29, 2020.

17. Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk about Race (Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2018).

18. “Seeing White,” Scene on Radio, 2020, https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/.

19. Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism (Boston: Beacon Press, 2018).

20. Layla F. Saad, Me and White Supremacy (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2020).

21. Dolores Huerta Foundation, https://doloreshuerta.org/dolores-huerta/.

22. “Yuri Kochiyama,” Wonder Women, https://www.wndrwmn.com/yuri-kochiyama.

23. Polynesian Panthers Party, https://polynesianpanthersparty.weebly.com/polynesian-panthers.html.

24. Berkeley Copwatch, “Justice 4 Kayla Moore,” https://www.berkeleycopwatch.org/justice-for-kayla-moore, accessed July 29, 2020.