Rachel Wiley Quotes

Be thankful that she knows your name and be careful never to forget hers.

A celebration is just a way of begging the good things to stay.

Read Sonya Renee Taylor’s The Body Is Not an Apology, Da’Shaun Harrison’s Belly of the Beast, Charlotte Cooper’s Fat Activism, Roxane Gay’s Hunger, Caleb Luna’s Revenge Body, Kiese Laymon’s Heavy, Nicole Byer’s #VeryFat #VeryBrave, Esther Rothblum and Sondra Solovay’s The Fat Studies Reader, Rachel Wiley’s Fat Girl Finishing School, and more.

Enough is a foul word.

I am still learning how to ask for what I deserve without it also sounding like an apology.

Witness, how she weeps until she dissolves and then wakes up to rebuild herself one salt grain at a time the next morning.

Drive her into the river to prove she can sink gracefully

Weightless but not the least bit smaller

they will call her strong but she did not come here to be strong there are means to strength that are not heartbreak

what a ghost town I would have been without you

Every time I’ve let someone fuck me with my dress still on I laid in bed afterwards and vowed that I would not let another person inside me that hasn’t seen me fully

as if on cue all of the forgotten hurts, preserved in previous canning seasons, begin to erupt in the cellar

This should not be the only book you read by a fat person about fatness and anti-fatness. Read Sonya Renee Taylor’s The Body Is Not an Apology, Da’Shaun Harrison’s Belly of the Beast, Charlotte Cooper’s Fat Activism, Roxane Gay’s Hunger, Caleb Luna’s Revenge Body, Kiese Laymon’s Heavy, Nicole Byer’s #VeryFat #VeryBrave, Esther Rothblum and Sondra Solovay’s The Fat Studies Reader, Rachel Wiley’s Fat Girl Finishing School, and more. Whether you’re new to thinking critically about anti-fatness or a longstanding fat activist, be sure to locate this book, accurately, as just one of many fat perspectives available to you. Writers who aren’t fat have made substantial contributions here too. Sabrina Strings’s Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia is an indispensable history linking anti-Black racism to anti-fatness. J. Eric Oliver’s Fat Politics analyzes the emergence in the 1990s and 2000s of the United States’ so-called obesity epidemic. Each of these works offer vital analysis of the mechanics and history of anti-fatness. And each will deepen your thinking about anti-fatness and your clarity in countering anti-fatness.

water might be the only thing that could ever hold us gentle

Someplace where we will not spend any more years piling on scabs

my perfect is a ransom I cannot bring myself to pay

The illusion is a success when they’re all asking how it’s done

an angry beauty queen ripping sequins from a dress       that didn’t sparkle enough to win

Hey Baby, did it hurt when you fell from my expectations?

and for once it won’t hurt and for once it will be on our terms

says that he hates cats because your affection has to be earned. He says this like it is a bad and impossible thing.