December 2011
12 posts
Truths for Fat People
femmesandfamily:
written by a fat person.
You are beautiful. Not always and not to everyone, but we are all beautiful and deserving of love.
You do not have justify your body to anyone. Not to your family, your friends, your doctor, your partners. It is your body. No one else’s.
You are allowed to take up space. Use the world around you to your advantage. Be present in the world in as...
“Women who are fat are said to have ‘let themselves go.’ The very phrase connotes...”
– “Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship,” by Cecilia Hartley (via esperanzaj)
The irony is people’s reactions to fatness is usually about driving us to become ever more distant from ourselves in order to insert their generic ‘obese’ caricature.
(via bumsquash)