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While many of us traditionally celebrate Thanksgiving with friends and family, we need to be aware of the true meaning of the first Thanksgiving. Our current understanding of the holiday changes history, which celebrated attempts to eliminate the people that inhabited the land white Europeans invaded and stole. With this posting, we are sharing resources that share the history of the real Thanksgiving celebration, how it affects indigenous people and where you can go to support them.
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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