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Jean Park

Jean Park

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From What it’s like to be that fat person sitting next to you on the plane. by Your Fat Friend

In that way, air travel is sadly familiar, a microcosm of what happens so often as a fat person. I am watched — and judged harshly — as I try — and fail — to fit into a space that was made for someone else. I am always too big, always too much, always unacceptable. I must make myself smaller and smaller, reducing and reducing endlessly, my stubborn body resisting at every turn. Still, I am never quite small enough to make anyone else comfortable.

From What it’s like to be that fat person sitting next to you on the plane. by Your Fat Friend

… them, I will hear the familiar, belabored, disdainful sigh. The throat cleared, the muffled groan. These are the sounds of my body being seen in public.

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Today I Learned Something About My Boyfriend That No Girl Should Ever Have to Discover

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