Rewriting the memory
I attended the first two writing webinars sponsored by NAAFA, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, and I’m excited to go to the third this weekend. The most recent one was titled, “A Fat Body Sits at the Dinner Table”. We began by writing about a prompt related to actual memories, and we then […]
Reclaiming “Fat”
For so long, “fat” has been a word I’ve omitted from my vocabulary—a word only said to myself, about myself, in moments of great distress. I’ve heard it hurled at others, and even myself to a small extent as a young kid, as a terrible insult. As I’ve read more and learned more, however, I’m […]