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Yonah Karp
Yonah Karp

Yonah Karp

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From The divine liberation of calling myself fat. by Your Fat Friend

Calling myself fat allows me to wrest my own experiences from the jaws of a powerful, pervasive narrative that says I ought to be ashamed of the body I have always had, the body I am learning to take care of, as we all are. It allows me to carve out a space to say that the treatment I receive isn’t deserved just for looking the way I look.

From The divine liberation of calling myself fat. by Your Fat Friend

I say fat to take back a heavily charged word. It’s a word that can be used with the sole intent to cause pain and harm — in street harassment, in…

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