Sublime

Tratava meu corpo como algo inútil, por não ter a aparência que supostamente deveria ter.

Our culture loves a binary, and we tend to view things through strict divisions—black or white, right or wrong, true or false—rather than with nuance, when two seemingly opposing concepts can be true at the same time. Able-bodied and disabled is a widely accepted binary, though it is possible to pass through one on the way to the other, to experien

“Living in a world of wonky shirts and jeans and pants that don’t fit a new lower belly makes me feel defeated. My new body also stole all my heels. My new feet only fit my ugliest clunky work shoes and some sneakers. I’m trying to remember that it’s temporary.”

She ate one meal a day, at lunchtime—ham-and-cheese roll-ups drizzled with honey. Otherwise, she drank can after can of Diet Coke in the morning, and then about midafternoon she switched to mango margaritas, and the margaritas saw her out. She said this was pandemic behavior, but the only kitchen equipment she brought with her when she moved in was

Raising children should not be as lonely, bankrupting, and exhausting as it is.

For the first time in her life, she’d taken to wearing pantyhose, and not just one pair but two, along with black compression socks. It wasn’t a great look, but she felt the need to be held. Squeezed.

It wasn’t just her clothes, though, but the way she held her body. Taut, like a guitar string wound around itself.

unspooled

Nós somos ensinadas que magreza é sinônimo de beleza, poder e amor.