Newsflash!

I Already Know I’m Fat

Your attempts to shame me for it only stoke my fire

Rachael Hope

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Fattitude

7 min readOct 22, 2019

Photo by Tiffany Burke (provided by Author)

When you walk through life in a body that society deems untenable, moments of imposed shame are so constant they become commonplace. It’s not that you get used to them exactly; more that when they happen there is a complete lack of surprise.

Fat shaming comes in…

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