Embracing ugly in a world that’s tried to weaponize it against me
The impact of being uglified has real, painful, and pervasive consequences.
A man called me an ugly Black woman, but the harm doesn’t start or end with him
It terrifies me how widely accepted, how normalized, how validated bullying and fatphobia continues to be—even amongst the most revolutionary of people. We do not deserve to have our bodies be made villainous or humorous.
