Kishona’s Cool Club

gets super emotional, cries over the smallest things, empathetic™, can’t handle anything, irritable, overstimulated™, anxious

TRANSCRIPT (From tumblr user skoople)

I think because we talk about body image and fatphobia together so much, we sometimes forget those are separate things; and it is actually exhausting being someone who talks about anti fatness frequently to have those conversations be misunderstood and derailed into being about body image.

When I am talking about systemic anti fatness, I'm not talking about how I feel about my body.

I love my body with the best of them, but I cannot love my body out of employment discrimination or medical discrimination.

I can't love my body into equal pay or equal access to healthcare.

Fat people live in a world that pays us less, charges us more, denies us healthcare, openly ridicules and excludes us, and then tells us the solution is to love our bodies.

But it's not.

The solution is to give fat people access to the same rights, resources, and services that thin people get without question.

Like, "Kayla is thin, and she eats cake and ice cream sometimes, so it's possible to eat some cake and ice cream and be thin. Brenda is fat, so she must eat unfathomable amounts of cake and ice cream. If she ate a moderate amount, like Kayla, she would be thin like Kayla!"

Then maybe...

Maybe...