It was before marketing campaigns quietly wrote the rest of us out of body positivity and before so many thin people’s body positivity came with caveats: As long as you’re happy and healthy. As long as you’re not, you know, obese. As long as you’re not glorifying obesity. It was before body positivity became pride in thin, fair, feminine, able bodies. It was before that grand vision of a shining city on a hill became a mirage.
