coping with fatphobia through humor, art, & vulnerability
This was a real interaction I had earlier today 😂
I can laugh now because I've been actively unlearning fatphobia for some time now. How I feel in my body and how I talk to my body have been ongoing topics in therapy for months. I've gained the tools & support from @entirelytalia and other fat activists & body liberation advocates to know her making a comment like that says a lot more about how she feels in her body than how I could ever feel in mine. And that ultimately I benefit from thin privilege in a society that dehumanizes & stigmatizes larger bodies.
I started taking a drawing class today because somebody once told me it's a skill anyone can learn how to do. That drawing is like reading or writing or riding a bike -- you just have to be taught. It's a myth that drawing is an inherent skill only some people are born with. So I want to learn how to draw because I want to learn how to make comics!
I got kinda bored with my journal entries just looking like words on lines on pages. After reading "Dykes to Watch Out For" by @alisonbechdel , I felt inspired to start documenting my life in new, exciting, different ways. I have always loved writing dialogue and comics feel like the perfect medium to explore that. Other than writing plays... which tbh sounds like a dream but a bit scary at the moment so I'll just stick with comics for now 😅
So here's to learning how to draw! And to making my first comic! And to expressing myself vulnerably on the internet! And to ridding fatphobia from our psyches & systems! And to claiming my body as loveable just the way it is! 😍