I take opportunities to show my body as a way of paying it forward. I owe so much of my mental well-being to fat women and femmes who have dared to live visibly and without apology. My body is so much more than a measure of desirability. (But trust me, it's desired. Just ask my husband and my boyfriend and all the men who will troll this post who secretly lust after fat women.) It's a vehicle I have driven to and thru my wildest fucking dreams. I have lived, really lived, in this body rather than putting my goals on hold so I could reach them as a smaller version of myself. I won't shrink for anyone. I will take up space.
