As a devoted listener of the Maintenance Phase Podcast I knew I was always going to like whatever nonfiction Aubrey Gordon came out with. But even still was was bowled over by just how insightful and well constructed What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat was.

As expected this book was filled with incisive and compelling research and argumentation about the systemic discrimination and abuse fat people face in the workplace, travel, and most dangerously the medical field. Gordon is especially great at using personal narrative as a scaffold for weighty and detailed research. 

This book is a great introduction to the principles of Fat Justice and going beyond simple body positivity. I especially appreciated how Gordon called for mid sized women like myself to de-center our own negative body feelings from conversations about the systemic discrimination fat people face. I highly recommend this to anyone interested in the subject matter.