Unmasking Bias: How "No Fats No Fems" Challenges Queer Stereotypes and Sparks Powerful Conversations
Hovey has also done his homework. The endnotes include nearly one hundred citations from sources as diverse as studies into online dating, reviews of hate crime statistics, HIV treatment papers, and, perhaps my favorite new trivium, a research paper that notes that eighty percent of male-male swan couples successfully raise their (adopted) offspring, compared to a shockingly low thirty percent of male-female swan couples. “There in the twilit world of the heterosexual,” as I am wont to say.
Although the meat — pardon the pun, Max — of the book lies in the ways it guides the reader to an examination of unconscious prejudices (debunking, in the process, that white gay male fallback, “I’m not a racist, it’s just a preference”), a deeper understanding of harmful fetishizations, and the painful ways all queer people are taught to parrot colonialist, capitalist standards, specifically when it comes to misogyny, colorism, ableism, and fatphobia, I spent the most time re-reading the chapters that bookend the work.
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