Natalie Slaughter

I’m very aware of the fact that I’m fat — trust me. I’ve had this body for longer than you’ve been familiar with it.

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

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.

Because you only get one shot at life.

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.

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

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.

Why is Marvel casting white actors to play Asian characters?

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

[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.