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Listening to a podcast about bodies and eating disorders and the body positivity movement of the last decade ish and hearing someone say (paraphrasing from memory here) "body positivity was all capitalism, there were no legislative changes, just new brands of jeans"

Legislative changes are super important but I cannot emphasize enough that jeans coming in bigger sizes and fat-friendly cuts is actually a really big deal! With meaningful impacts on people's lives (including mine)! Fat people do need clothes! And you may not realize this, but if you're over a certain size (that's not even that big a size) there's a very good chance you can go to a big box store and *not find anything that fits you*. There are towns in the US where if you're over a size 18 you need to drive an hour away or shop online to get things in your size. And they're expensive! "Just buy used" if they even have your size! Fat people want to look nice too. And we face enough judgement during job interviews (to give one example) without trying to do it in clothes that don't fit or are super uncomfortable.

Actually: If you're fat and you want to look cute/hot/masc/femme/etc I cannot recommend this website enough, you put in your measurements and it lists what brands have your size. You can filter for stuff like sensory friendly, nonbinary, masc, organic, etc. It's not AI just a database.

@terreurs :)

hey, all. sorry to be doing this. i expected to get paid this weekend. doesn't look like that's gonna happen. it would be fine if my food stamps hadn't been turned off for reasons i still don't understand. also, and this is less relevant, but i'm out of my pain meds for the next week. meaning not only am i even less able to do things, but i'm also hungrier and feel worse not eating.

so i'm having to pay my light bill, which will leave us totally depleted. i have been constantly hungry for several days waiting on my disability pay, which seems to come in whenever the hell it wants to these days. i feel like hell, and i'm not gonna start feeling better until i eat something substantial. i don't know what to do. i can hardly think through the pain or hunger.

anyway. sorry to be bellyaching. i'm just really tired of the nonsense of living lately.

if anybody can spare a few bucks so we can get some noms and hopefully function a little better, i would be grateful. if anybody has suggestions in terms of what to do about having to taper off percocet, which is the only effective medication i can safely take for pain, that would also be cool. but i don't expect there's anything i can do about that.

i am exhausted and i need a break. please help.

i totally get that lots of people are struggling right now, but even boosting this could help me out a lot, so please consider that even if you can't donate/help directly.

cash // pp // vnm