Natalie Slaughter

At this point gender basically exists to sell us stuff.

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

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.

Because you only get one shot at life.

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

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

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

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.

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.