Natalie Slaughter

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

A polyamorous relationship is like any other relationship — you set rules and sometimes you hit bumps along the way, but everyone involved knows what is and isn’t acceptable.

Because you only get one shot at life.

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

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.

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.

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

[N]o one held my molester down and called the police for what he did to me. He was quietly escorted away, and over the course of a few months, the whispers of support turned into accusations.