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513. Fat Representation and Recommendations with Shana McDavis-Conway

Smart Podcast, Trashy Books: A Romance Novel Podcast

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Sheis Fat, but It's Not Like the Subject of the Book

"i looked at illustrated book covers and how they gave us this opportunity to start putting fat bodies on. I mean, i do feel like one of the advantages was it meant that you could have these fat bodies, but it also means that those fat bodies were kind of depicted in these really cartoony ways," she says. "And then it's actuiol much more threatening am to have a fat person, a truly fat person, on the cover of a woman soon who might not have like, an hour class body shape."

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