Natalie Slaughter

At this point gender basically exists to sell us stuff.

It's okay to dump your friends — even friends who have been there for you in the past. Remember today that you deserve good things and good people.

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...

Because you only get one shot at life.

Is anything keeping you from believing that you deserve good things?

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.

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.