Fattily Ever After Quotes

“Fat womxn can be feminine. But it isn’t the be all and end all. We can be other things too. We can be alternative. We can be androgynous. We can be gender non-conforming and non-binary. We can be butch. We can be casual. We can be all these things and STILL have the right to exist and feel socially acceptable within society.”
― Stephanie Yeboah, Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girl's Guide to Living Life Unapologetically

“Nowadays, I try not to pay attention to what society deems beautiful or not. It isn’t always easy though, and I’m always trying to un-learn toxic thoughts and behaviours anytime I recognize it.”
― Stephanie Yeboah, Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girl's Guide to Living Life Unapologetically

“Being an ally is not like writing a CV, you cannot just build up a list of things you’ve done and wave it around in class like Hermione Granger on steroids. You don’t get a badge that you can pin onto your jacket and shine up so people notice it. It shouldn’t be performative. Once you become an ally, you’ve got to know the person or people you want to align with, and they’ve got to know you too. You have to build trust, and with that comes patience.”
― Stephanie Yeboah, Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girl's Guide to Living Life Unapologetically

“this is not, or at least should not be, an #AllBodiesMatter situation. Of course, all bodies are equally important, and I hope that everyone reading this – whether they are a size 4 or a size 30 – feels good about themselves. But body positivity is not about boosting the confidence of people with conventionally attractive and ‘acceptable’ figures. It’s not about logging onto Instagram and seeing a barrage of attractive, white, thin (or thin adjacent) womxn bending over as HARD as possible to create a smidgen of a micro-roll in order to prove to their thousands of followers that they too (!!) are ‘normal, real, womxn’.”
― Stephanie Yeboah, Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girl's Guide to Living Life Unapologetically