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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

quote dump part 2 from our January 2025 book 📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings In solidarity, WR Book Club.

Quote from Sabrina Strings’ book, Fearing the Black Body, which reads “Racial scientific rhetoric about slavery linked fatness to greedy Africans. And religious discourse suggested that overeating was ungodly”

Quote from Sabrina Strings’ book, Fearing the Black Body, which reads “In the United States, fatness became stigmatized as both black and sinful”

Quote from Sabrina Strings’ book, Fearing the Black Body, which reads “This is an aesthetic value system crafted by elites that places qualities symbolizing refinement (and a remove from the vulgar, the common, and the low) atop the aesthetic heirarchy.”

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

quote dump part 1 from our January 2025 book 📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings In solidarity, WR Book Club.

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

FEB 2025 BOOK PICK Hello literary laborers & happy February! We are so excited to read this for the first time along side yall ☺️📚 📖Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club #wrbc #ParableOfTheSower #OctaviaButler#WorkersReadingBookClub #LaborUnionBookClub

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

📚The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada 3 industrial factory employees focus on their specific & sort of strange jobs while the factory slowly expands, blurring the lines between factory & outside world. Told in alternating 1st person narratives. Strange creatures appear! (I haven’t read this yet) (8/9)

Photo of a hand holding The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

📚The Employees by Olga Ravn Set in the near future, this book follows the human and humanoid crew of a space ship that took on strange objects from another planet through witness statements compiled by a workplace commission. (I haven’t read this yet) (7/9)

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

📚Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead volume 1 by Haro Aso Akira had a soul crushing job, but his life turns around when the zombie apocalypse begins, and he no longer has to go into the office. (This would be our first manga! I read this right after leaving my corporate job so l’m a fan) (6/?)

Cover of Zom 100 volume 1 by Haro Aso on a pavement background

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

When Gerard’s consciousness gets uploaded to his company’s Slack chat, his coworkers assume he just wants to work from home. His productivity has skyrocketed so his boss doesn’t mind, despite Gerard’s attempts to find help. Written entirely in the format of slack chats! (5/?)

Cover of Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

In one of the last safe neighborhoods of LA in the future, hyperempathetic Lauren loses her family and home to a fire and must head out into the dangerous world and venture north in search of safety with a group of survivors, thinking of revolutionary ways to save mankind. (3/?)

Cover of the book Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Looking toward February 2025... I think it’s time for another fiction book! I’d like to pitch a few, and am open to suggestions for more! Please check out these books below/read some reviews/ let me know what you think! Also feel free to comment others you’d like to read :) (1/?)

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A quote from the Introduction of this month’s book selection! Lots of interesting exploration of cultural standards, and how they are influenced by racism, sexism, religion, wealth, and power. How has your reading been going? (1/2)

Quote from Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings written on an orange background that reads “[…] slenderness served as a marker of moral, racial, and national superiority”

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

“As the first chapter of this book describes, the political strategy of divide, demonize, and conquer has worked for centuries in the United States—since the days of slavery—to keep poor and working people angry at (and fearful of) one another […]” (1/2)

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

“Every system of injustice depends on the silence, paralysis, confusion, and cooperation of those it seeks to eliminate or control.” 📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club.

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Workers Reading Book Club @workersreading.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

JANUARY 2025🎉 new year, new book club selection! 📚Fearing the Black Body: the Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings In solidarity, Workers Reading Book Club. (1/3)

Screenshot from the Fable app, reading that Workers Reading changed the book for their club from The New Jim Crow to Fearing the Black Body

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