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Recognized as the pathbreaking text of feminist fat activism, Shadow on a Tightrope: Writing by Women on Fat Oppression (1983), published by Aunt Lute Press and edited by Lisa Schoenfielder and Barb Wieser, is the first anthology to come out of the fat liberation movement. The story of this book—drawn from archival materials, reviews of the book, and the text itself—illuminates the centrality of feminist print culture, including newsletters, small journals, and independent publishers and presses, in creating and sustaining both this groundbreaking text and the vitality of fat feminism itself. This story traces the circuitous routes, personal connections, limited resources, affective joy and pain, displaced costs, and complex agendas that characterized early feminist print culture. The story of this anthology and its emergence from a network of feminist newsletters, journals, presses and publishers also shows that feminist …