Kelly Lenza
May 1, 2023

I think this is what a great deal of the fat lib community struggles with, myself included. I think overall there's the expectation is that if we just share our suffering, people will understand and stop being fatphobic. But it doesn't work that way, and it leads to a lot of the community being really stuck in trauma bonding.

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Kelly Lenza
Kelly Lenza

Written by Kelly Lenza

They. I’m an artist, writer, mom, trans and queer, autistic. Fatter IRL.

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