Natalie Slaughter

If I have sex with a woman, it does not make me gay. As someone who identifies as female, it doesn’t even make me a lesbian.

There’s a lot more information about what it’s like to be a fat woman and the things you should and shouldn’t say. Here's what I want everyone to know...

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with loving my body. I don’t have to choose between being fat and beautiful, I can be both.

You can learn to live with the pain, you can move on as I have after over a decade of self-reflection and hard work, but you never, ever get over it.

Even a Google search will conflate “queer women” with “lesbian.” So the first and most obvious thing I wish people understood about being a queer woman, is that we exist.

Treating women like idiots has the additional consequence of making women less likely to report symptoms in general. It’s really exhausting

I barely had a chance to say “What’s taking him so long?” before he stepped up to the counter to ask me what he could help me with. Me. Not my friend who had been standing there for a minimum of twenty minutes waiting for assistance, but ME, the white girl.

To claim that something is “just politics” is to point out how much privilege you have, either systematically or incidentally.