Manifesto

Fatphobia is a numbers game. We tell ourselves, "Oh, I could never weight more than 140 pounds." (Or 160 pounds or 200 or more.) If you exceed this imaginary limit, your body becomes an impossibility. When I weighed 160 pounds, I thought I was too fat for words. Then I went up to 200. The unthinkable had happened. Now that I weigh 250 pounds and have friends twice my size, I realize that this numbers game is no different from the flat world theory: We set weight horizons beyond which we expect to fall off the face of the earth. But the world is round, and all bodies are possible, acceptable, real.