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We All Deserve to Be Happy

Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You by Sophie Hagen

August 15, 2019 by lumenatrix 2 Comments

I found the incredibly funny Sophie Hagen through her podcasts, Made of Human and Secret Dinosaur Cult. She is a lovely Danish standup comedian that now lives in London and she is very, very funny. She is also fat, and has been for most of her life. As most of us who are on the heavier side probably know, this means she has had certain experiences in life that are less than ideal. She decided it was time to really look into the ideas that Western society’s fat phobia is based on and first, find out if the ideas are […]

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8/15/2019 | lumenatrix's CBR11 Review No:20 |
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| Tags: #memoir, cbr11bingo, Happy Fat, humor, science, Sophie Hagen | Category: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor, Health | 2 Comments


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