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Each month, we will be featuring educational resources on the NAAFA Community Voices Blog. Some resources will be historic information about systemic racism. Others will be resources on doing the internal work of understanding ourselves and how we play a part in that system. There will also be actions that can be taken to directly oppose racism. This month, we focus on being an Ally.
Read MoreThe difficulty of being a good ally is that our voice is the most likely to be heard but the least likely to represent the people we’re fighting for. We may be at the center of other marginalized communities, but as a thin ally of fat people, we do not experience their specific stigma, trauma, and oppression, which ironically is why our voice gets heard more than theirs. Shocker: The voices of marginalized people get marginalized the most when they talk about how they are marginalized. As allies, our job is to center and amplify the voices of those who tend not to be heard and create safety for those who may fear to speak.
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