“Stop spending time with size-two actresses who call themselves fat.”
Oof. Shots fired.
The crowd’s eyes turned to me, the decidedly thin woman on this body image panel with an autobiographical solo comedy show called, I’M TOO FAT FOR THIS SHOW. I absorbed the blow, initiated by a fellow panelist, then floundered for my voice a moment…
FAT ACTIVISM
Lemme back up. I was thrilled to be invited to speak on a panel about fat activism, a movement which strives to neutralize the unnecessarily demonized term, “fat,” and return it to what it is — a mere descriptor, neither good nor bad.
Thrilled, yes. But also nervous. I didn’t know if my perspective as a former-anorexic would be appreciated or if instead my thin privilege would be held against me.
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