Hi friend,

 

How are you feeling about the new Patreon membership tiers? In case you missed it, last week I adjusted the subscription tiers and pricing to better help me support you. That change is also letting me start planning more exciting events for the rest of the year, starting with having Kayla Stansberry in to talk about fat trauma in February.

 

Onward: I was just speaking with someone who's a Jewish trans man, whose family survived the Holocaust and is now facing this new time of oppression and uncertainty.

 

How important can fat activism possibly be compared to that?

 

Sometimes it almost feels gauche, or somehow inappropriate, to talk about fatness in these times, when there's a tide of hatred swamping every marginalized group.

 

 

But fatness overlaps with every other group. There are fat trans folks. There are fat Jews. There are fat Black people. There are fat Brown people. There are fat disabled people.

 

Our fight is our fight, and it's a broadly-defined battle. All bodies deserve freedom, autonomy and safety.

 

When you take concrete action for fat people, you take concrete action for all people. For example: A variety of chairs (wide, armless, wide with arms, low, high) in the waiting room helps fat people, disabled people, and people who need a wider seat because, say, they have children with them.

 

In addition, no single person can fight a battle on every front at once. If we each pick a niche and stick to it, we can make more of a long-lasting difference than if we rush about, panicked, in every direction every time a new terrifying headline comes out.

 

I believe in our ability to fight oppression and change the world together. Fat activism is my sword and shield; what's yours?

 

Unapologetically fat,

P.S. Will you be at Fatcon Seattle this weekend? If so, please say hi when you see me!

 

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