@annzbaby So beautiful, you are just as perfect as the words and message you convey to us all. Thank you.🙏 Keep #strengthening us all We appreciate it. 😌💞 #YouArePlus +
" Gifting you with silvery stretch marks and thick hips on this Saturday afternoon. 🤍 CW: mention of struggling with my relationship with food/body:
As I begin to feel so many aspects of my life drift farther out of my control, my mind is tempted by the patterns I was taught to fall into to mimic control, the path that alluded to happiness and respect based in a body and beauty ideal rooted in colonialist, patriarchal, misogynistic myth. When life feels tough in other ways, requiring emotional and mental energy and attention to be spread thin, I must borrow from the energy typically required to exist unapologetically, not to mention happily and confidently, everyday as a fat woman in a fat-hating world. Of course, this happens at the expense of my relationship with my body and the food I love to enjoy and require to nourish and fuel me through life. I resent the fact that my mind has been programmed to sacrifice this vitally important relationship- between my body, mind, and food- for other aspects of my life. When this happens I begin to think about how much easier my life would be if I was not fat, and I scramble to to find the energy it takes to dismantle these ideas- allowing space for anger at the reality of this thought, but not letting it consume me or overtake the fight I have in me for marginalized bodies and fat liberation. In moments like this I have to really look at myself and my body and realign with what I know to be right with and for me. I circle back to the very basic and beginning stages of my relationship with fat activism and photograph myself- capturing lumps and curves, rolls and bumps, and witnessing, nurturing, allowing space for, my raw and vulnerable self all over again. In doing so I remember the tenderness I deserve to give myself, and need to give myself as a matter of survival. It’s a love and acceptance no one else has ever truly demonstrated, and I realize how precious I am to myself. 🖤✨ "
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