Pre-Release Book Launch: Céline Leboeuf

Pre-Release Book Launch: Céline Leboeuf presents The Tyranny of Thinness: Understanding and Resisting the Pressure to Be Skinny

Wine reception to follow

Essayist and cultural critic Céline Leboeuf Ph.D. launches The Tyranny of Thinness, a timely and unflinching manifesto to defying diet culture, cultivating radical self-care, and rediscovering empowered embodiment. Responding to the resurrection of heroin chic and thinspo to the rise of #SkinnyTok and Ozempic, and informed by the work of luminaries from Simone de Beauvoir and Mary Wollstonecraft to Audre Lorde and Roxane Gay, Dr. Leboeuf unpacks the philosophical and oppressive systems that sustain our cultural obsession with being thin, ultimately stealing joy, agency, and self-determination from our adolescences, our social identities, our ambitions, and even our sense of moral worth. Drawing on memoir, feminist theory, and cultural analysis, Dr. Leboeuf reads from and discusses the book before an audience Q&A and signing.