Natalie Slaughter

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.

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

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

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...

[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.

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.

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

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.