Pre-Release Book Launch: Céline Leboeuf with Lindsay Denninger

Céline Leboeuf Ph.D. launches a timely manifesto to defying diet culture & the oppressive systems sustaining our obsession with being thin. Pre-Release Book Launch: Céline Leboeuf presents The Tyranny of Thinness: Understanding and Resisting the Pressure to Be Skinny In conversation with Lindsay Denninger 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 with award-winning author Lindsay Denninger (You Know You Love Me: How Gossip Girl Changed Pop Culture As We Know It), before an audience Q&A and signing.