Story Time: “You Need To Look More Like Her”

The fat acceptance, body positivity, and HAES (Health at Every Size) movements have grown in popularity over the years. One of the main pillars of their mission is to eradicate the bullying, harassment, and ridicule of larger bodies that is quite normalized in our society.

As a little girl I have been inundated with opposing messages from black culture and the mainstream society. From a…