Radical Belonging Quotes

“When I feel disconnected from my body, I don’t take care of it. When I embrace my body, when I appreciate what it does for me, I do. Learning not to hate our bodies isn’t a matter of feeling good or appeasing the self-esteem of fat people, it’s a matter of our physical health and emotional survival.”
― Lindo Bacon, Radical Belonging: How to Survive + Thrive in an Unjust World

“When some bodies are held up as examples of what not to look like and who not to be, all of us suffer. It creates a culture of judgment and rejection, which leads to a world of hurt and shame.”
― Lindo Bacon, Radical Belonging: How to Survive + Thrive in an Unjust World