So? She is also one of my heroes. I just finished reading Marilyn Wann’s 1998 book (based on her zine by the same name), Fat!So? Because You Don’t Have to Apologize for your Size. When I started reading Fat!So?, I began transcribing quotes and thinking about what I would write about this book, Read more…
Learn from Sabrina Strings’s 2019 book about how the racial discourse of fatness “not only denigrated black women, it also served as the driver for the creation of slenderness as the proper form of embodiment for elite white Christian women.
By Shelby Yaffe It was the summer of 2016, and I was at the hospital again. My nurse was eyeing me warily as I explained what I was feeling – “I feel like I’m living in a dream. I wake up and it never feels real. I look in the Read more…
