My greatest fear was true: my scale wasn’t lying. I did look bloated. And since I’m a woman, I’m the worst, because the worst thing a woman can be is fat.
Category Archive: Personal Essay
Selfies of you protesting in sepia don’t count.
A Tsunami of post-fact; we were drowning in the waves of the unreal.
I was always wanting to be in somebody else’s skin.
When you’re a child, we try to make your world fair.
1. With a police officer.
I feel a sense of loss I’ve never felt before.
I’m curvier than the Guggenheim and it makes me very sad.
I am submitting this anonymously because I work for a job where I am allowed to take no partisan side, and that work is very important, and the side that has just seized power over this country is the side that would just as soon see me, and the thousands more fighting for the rights of the oppressed alongside me, gone.
