as small as a world and as large as alone

8:33pm April 8, 2014

nerdymouse:

sad-queer:

things “body positivity” movements should address besides weight/fat:

• (dis)ability
• features associated with non-whiteness
• hair type
• lots of body hair / no body hair / little body hair / hair in all places / losing hair
• acne 
• skin conditions
• scars
• stretch marks
• skin discolorations
• different ways that skin tans
• tanlines
• etc

so when white feminists show me pictures of fat able-bodied white women with super smooth skin and no discolorations/skin marks and no body hair and say “love your body!!1!” it’s like nope. 

I may be fat but I’m also so many other things that are looked down upon and policed. If your body positivity doesn’t seek to dismantle white supremacy/ableism/cissexism/etc, what good is your body positivity? who is it helping?

Which is why I try to include all of this. 

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