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“Body positivity doesn’t mean you flip a switch and walk around feeling great for the rest of your life. It’s not even really about feelings at all. Body positivity is about what you do. It’s about daring to live your life as you are—not fifty pounds from now, not six dress sizes from now… There are going to be days when every bad feeling comes back for you again… Those are the days you do it anyway.”

“But I of all people know it doesn’t matter how smart I am, or how talented. When you’re fat, all of those qualities are erased. All that exists to represent you as a three-dimensional and nuanced human is your fatness, and your fatness is translated in a kind of visual shorthand for all sorts of moral failings. Laziness. Gluttony. Uncleanliness. An unholy lack of self-control and self-discipline.”

finally reading this

it’s like a reward

i’m liking this so far, but holy hell is it a product of its time….

MURDERED???

“Ultimately, all beauty is transitory, but there’s no choice except to believe it is worthy.”

“You are a story that you tell yourself, and even if it is not always accurate, it is who you are, and that is very important to you.”

“What is reality except for the things that people universally experience the same way?”

first of all, i love whoever is reading this audiobook. their voice is like exactly how i imagined april to sound, and i love the way they read!

i usually hate women protagonists who are written by men, but hank green may just be an exception to this. i also love how he started to unpack biphobia ! very impressed

i’m reading this for class !! even though it’s nonfiction and an Assignment, i’m loving it and i’m prob gonna read ahead bc of how good it is!