In This Disarming And Candid Memoir, Cultural Critic Clarkisha Kent Unpacks The Kind Of Compounded Problems You Face When You're A Fat, Black, Queer Woman In A Society Obsessed With Heteronormativity.there Was No Easy Way For Kent To Navigate Personal Discovery And Self-love. As A Dark-skinned, First-generation American Facing A Myriad Of Mental Health Issues And Intergenerational Trauma, At Times Kent&8217;s Body Felt Like A Cosmic Punishment. In The Face Of Body Dysmorphia, Homophobia, Anti-blackness, And Respectability Politics, The Pursuit Of High Self-esteem Seemed Oxymoronic.&160;fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto&160;is A Humorous, At Times Tragic, Memoir That Follows Kent On Her Journey To Realizing That Her Body Is A Gift To Be Grown Into, That Sometimes Family Doesn&8217;t Always Mean Home, And How Even Ill-fated Bisexual Romances Could book Her From Gender Essentialism.