Marcy Guevara

That's where I feel.

It's like I feel connected to it as a human.

Like I want to keep fighting for this place.

Which I know me going on hikes and eating chicken and brown rice can still, I could still be a fat activist.

I know plenty of thin ones.

I think that self-acceptance is a gift.

I think body neutrality is a gift.

I think that if your body is shutting down on you and you're whatever, I don't even want to get into like staff.

I'm not a doctor.

So, you know, whatever it is that like we all know, this is the thing.

Any human that has a body knows when the body is telling them that something is wrong or off, right?

The body keeps the score.

I love that book.

I think it translates to many things outside of just fatness.

But I think that the general idea, which the sort of the claim that Julie and I connected on was that body positivity is fundamentally disempowering.

And that for me is just like I'm never going to ever agree with that statement.

And you can call it body positivity, body neutrality, self-acceptance, fat liberation.

Body positivity is just like a phrase that was coined, really a phrase that was co-opted by white women.

But body positivity started as a movement during the civil rights era.

by fat black women that wanted to tell all of the white women that weren't including them in this sort of body liberation movement the fat liberation movement they weren't including their black counterparts that's how body positivity started so it really isn't about like I feel great about my body it just means like we're included in the conversation so for me it's like I have adopted more of this