Sublime

“obesidade mórbida” enquadra as pessoas gordas como mortos-vivos,

Percebi, depois de anos de dieta, que eu estava tentando mudar a coisa errada. Eu não precisava mudar meu corpo, mas a maneira como eu me sentia em relação a ele.

Percebo agora que eu havia interiorizado a ideia de que mamilos rosados eram normais e bonitos,

These groups rely on pathologized approaches to disability (meaning focused on impairment) that can be in contrast to experiential or relational approaches (which would focus on environment, expectations, relationships, and set norms).

Body reflexivity offers an escape from the apparently exhaustive options of positivity, negativity, or neutrality, by proposing a different focus. Rather than changing how bodies are assessed, it urges us to transcend the mode of assessment entirely. (“I don’t look at you with a critical eye,” is something often said to me by my husband—which means

Eventually I decided that asking me to be something other than black, exchanging black for being a person of color was anything but well-meaning. Finally, for now, I have decided on being as black-black as I can be. It is my protest.