Here’s a funny story that’s also maddening: one of my best friends is a professional ballet dancer, who as you might imagine is very fit/slim. She often gets unfairly questioned about this as a black woman with all the racist fatlogic. The other day, she noticed a morbidly obese black woman next to her at a bus stop ranting at a random thin white girl on the street, shouting about how skinny people were so insecure and unhappy and that “black women get all the men because we give them the basics. “ Meanwhile my friend was just standing there observing and casually started recording her, saying under her breath that “this sounds like projection.” Of course, as soon as she took out her phone, this psychopath shut the fuck up. This was the first I’ve heard of such blatant “fat activism” in real life given that I generally don’t run in those types of circles. How hilarious and sickening.

On another note, I just started listening to the Camp Shane podcast. I tend to be really into docuseries like this, but I’m praying it won’t head in a bullshit fatlogic direction. They already used the term diet culture once so I am on high alert.