Making room for fat women’s experiences in feminist spaces is straightforward. It requires simply adjusting our understandings of sexual violence to exist beyond the framework of desirability (even though we already insist that it is about power, not about sex). But for all of us, thin and fat alike, expanding our framework would require acknowledging an axis of experience that we tend to think of as both organic and earned. Even among the most socially conscious of us, fatness is considered to be a moral failing and well within our control. As such, thin bodies have earned their reverence and
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