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[such_heights]

Hi all,

Am looking for resources for a couple of friends of mine, and was wondering if any of you have some links/suggestions off the top of your head!

1. I am looking for novels that feature positive portrayals of women who aren't thin.

2. I am looking for resources to help someone who's currently in a pretty bad pit of depression but having trouble articulating that and reaching out. That sounds all too familiar to me, but I don't recommend my own strategy of going and going until you snap. Anything about first reaching out for professional support or recognising that's what happening is an illness and not a moral failing would be most welcome.

♥!

Comments

[wildestranger]

Justina Robson's Silver Screen. It's scifi, takes place in Leeds in the 2050s, and is about a chubby Indian woman who is more worried about her work and her friends than her on/off boyfriend. Wonderful novel and quietly radical in what it chooses to privilege.

[such_heights]

Oooh, why I have not heard of this before, sounds fab!