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Our Fat Bodies Are Not Your Metaphors

A look at reactions to Gabourey Sidibe’s engagement reveal a frustrating, persisting reality: when good things happen to fat people, the world doesn’t know how to act.

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We Do Not Deserve Hospitals

My radical imagination for the future does not include the violence that occurs within a hospital’s walls — or the hospital at all.

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