Happy LGBTQIA+ Pride Month 2022!

This month and every month, I’m proud to be a queer and nonbinary trans person, a fat-attracted person married to a wonderful superfat queer gender non-conforming / butch / mas(s)culine-presenting woman, and an ally in the fat liberation movement.

I am not writing this piece to receive “ally cookies” (rewards from an oppressed community for supporting them in ways that everyone should as part of being a mensch, a good person).  My kavannah, intention, is to show other thin people some ways they can begin, maintain or grow their practice of allyship with the fat community.  Whether we are LGBTQIA+ or not, wherever we are and go in life, we can and must share the good news of fat liberation.  We must center fat voices, and we must add our own in solidarity.  It is not always safe, or without cost, but it is far safer and less costly for us than for fat folks.

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