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“Fat people—especially very fat people, like me—are frequently met with screwed-up faces insisting on health and concern. Often, we defend ourselves by insisting that concerns about our health are wrongheaded, rooted in faulty and broad assumptions. We rattle off our test results and hospital records, citing proudly that we’ve never had a heart attack, hypertension, or diabetes. We proudly recite our gym schedules and the contents of our refrigerators. Many fat people live free from the complications popularly associated with their bodies. Many fat people don’t have diabetes, just as many fat people do have loving partners despite common depictions of us. Although we are not thin, we proudly report that we are happy and we are healthy. We insist on our goodness by relying on our health. But what we mean is that we are tired of automatically being seen as sick. We are exhausted from the work of carrying bodies that can only be seen as doomed. We are tired of being heralded as dead men walking, undead specters from someone else’s morality tale.”
― What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
― What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
“You know that book of poems I’m always carrying around? [...] In one of her poems, she calls hope the ‘thing with feathers,’ and I always think about that…. Maybe when we hope for something, the hope flies off to find whatever it is we’re thinking about…and then it brings it back to us. And when there’s nothing else we can do, at least we can hope.”
― Aru Shah and the City of Gold
― Aru Shah and the City of Gold
“Anger makes one blind to happiness.”
― Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes
― Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes
“Sometimes a weakness felt like a blade turned inward, but that meant it was sharp enough that when turned around, it could be a weapon. You just had to be willing to face it and adjust your grip. And that made it magic far more powerful than any celestial weapon.”
― Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes
― Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes
“fat hate starts young, that its trauma can last a lifetime, and that early intervention will be essential to raising a generation of more compassionate people.”
― What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
― What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
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