This newly popularized body positivity drowns out so many of us, reducing problems of social exclusion to issues of self-esteem and body image. It focuses on normalizing the moments in which thin bodies appear fat, rather than tackling the more intransigent and troubling systems of privilege and oppression that marginalize those of us who are fat. It disproportionately centers the experiences of cis women who are thin, white, Western, abled, straight. And in so doing, it writes out those of us more than one standard deviation from the mean—we can be people of color, or we can have a
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