It is important for me to note that the fat body positivity movements would not exist without black women. Every time an all white (and usually not fat) body positivity post crosses your feed, know that they stole and co-opted this movement from black women (click that link). For as long as I can remember,
I tried to write the story of when 20-year-old me moved to Los Angeles, but first I had to tell the story of how I got to Tucson from rural Michigan. It became a story about the various men, good and bad, that influenced my sometimes drastic decisions. So, I want to say that this
“Look, I don’t want to talk about this anymore, it clearly upsets you.” This is the last text that I got from a dude. I never replied. It had been maybe two weeks of never ending emails baring our souls which led to texting plans to hang out. I was in nursing school at
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