Books
- Cameron, Erin and Constance Russell, eds. The Fat Pedagogy Reader. New York, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2016.
- Cooper, Charlotte. Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement. Bristol, England: HammerOn Press, 2021.
- Farrell, Amy Erdman. Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2011.
- Gay, Roxane. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2018.
- Gordon, Aubrey. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People. 1st ed. Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press, 2023.
- Harker, Yasmin Sokkar. "Fat Rights and Fat Discrimination: An Annotated Bibliography." Legal Reference Services Quarterly 34, no. 4 (2015): 293-323.
- Kirkland, Anna Rutherford. Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood. New York: New York University Press, 2008.
- Solovay, Sondra. Tipping the Scales of Justice: Fighting Weight-Based Discrimination. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2000.
- Strings, Sabrina. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2019.
- Taylor, Sonya Renee and Ohio Library and Information Network. The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love. First ed. Oakland, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc, 2018.
Musicians to consider:
Offering students recordings of Deborah Voigt, Luciano Pavarotti, Kathryn Lewek, Limmie Pulliam, Jamie Barton, or Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov allows them to see diverse body types creating great music. Rock and roll have fat icons as well, including Aretha Franklin, Mama Cass Elliot, Fats Domino, the Notorious B.I.G., Beth Ditto, Lizzo, Tenacious D’s members Jack Black and Kyle Gass, Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes, Hawaiian ukulele sensation Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, B.B. King, Barry White, Meatloaf, and Luther Vandross.