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When was the last time you felt like a Confident Badass? In her book, Too Fat… Too Thin… Why Do I Hate the Skin I’m In? the author abandons the beaten path of banality which oftentimes bookend the discussions of low self-esteem and a lack of confidence in women. She dons her critical lens and offers a new treatise on these two topics that are frequently conflated and discussed exhaustively. For that reason, at first blush, you may be tempted to bypass this book. Do not do that, ladies, and gentlemen. If you do, you will have missed out on a well-articulated, funny, poignant, and well-researched book that forces you to take a second and maybe even a third look and ask yourself some tough questions. Sure, the title, colors and images are arresting, but, let me tell you! There is nothing superficial or unoriginal about this book. You will be glad you chose it.

Told from the perspective of “everywoman,” the reader walks away with the feeling of being replete after having consumed a sumptuous meal, the author, Judith D. Hall, serves in fine, inimitable style with words carefully selected to run the gamut of every emotion she wants you to feel. Her riveting account of how the debilitating demons of low self-esteem and a lack of confidence continue to consume a woman’s true essence is unique. She examines the root causes, names, and blames obsolete patriarchal views on gender stereotypes as the ultimate purveyors of beauty constructs.

Hall’s narration of her experiences as a “tween” in the mid 1970’s is the perfect soundtrack to these discussions which she expresses with alternate self-deprecating humor, a refreshing honesty and a “punch-to-the-gut, heightened awareness that threatens your composure as she examines gender-based violence, colorism, and the penchant that many men have for “light-skinned” girls. From skin bleaching, the Jamaican dancehall culture, and increasing deadly violence against women, and so much more. Nothing is sacrosanct in her defense of feminism.

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