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my heart needed this today. maybe yours does too. #Repost @dangerouslyinchub • • • • • Only Strong Climbers Need Apply 🍑 This Truth and ask all these questions about all your privileges. #Repost @ragenchastain • • • • • People often ask me how to use thin privilege. One way is to reframe questions like this to recognize privilege. Another good example is airplane seats. It’s not “I can’t believe that fatty thinks they should pay the same as me for the same flight!” The question to ask is “Why can I just expect that I’ll get a seat that will accommodate me, but other people can’t?” The follow up question is “How can I help create equality?” #fatpride #fatpositive #losehatenotweight #effyourbodystandards #fatrightsarehumanrights #flyingwhilefat Thank you for this tender story @laylafsaad and sharing this work with your brilliant child. Tell Maya i said thanks for reading my book. #Repost @laylafsaad • • • • • Today I gifted my daughter this incredible book by @sonyareneetaylor for her 9th birthday (which was a few days ago). I bought the book months ago with the intention to give it to Maya for her birthday as over the summer we began to see some of the signs of puberty beginning. I wish this book had been around when I was a child! It is so informative, body positive, inclusive and colourful. It makes my role as a mother who wants to educate her daughter about her body without shame or fear so much easier. I highly recommend it! . We sat together reading it as she read for the first time about periods (and gave me the funniest look followed by ‘I don’t like blood’ 😂). Incidentally, I’m on Day 2 of my cycle so I explained to her that it really is just a normal part of our body’s functions. I’m grateful to have the book to help guide us through these conversations in a way that feels like us bonding. Thank you Sonya for writing this book! . P.S. When I told Maya that the book is written by a black woman, she lit up! And she loves that there are so many illustrations of black girls in the book. She flipped to the section on meditation where there’s an illustration of a black girl meditating and she said with pride, ‘She looks like me!😍’. Representation matters. P.P.S. Looking forward to reading The Body Is Not An Apology (also by Sonya) soon which was gifted by @catriceology at the #FollowBlackWomen conference. we have a very strange preoccupation with genitals and who has what. Let's stop that. it is hella weird. #Repost @andrearoussos • • • • • Oooooooh I hope it’s a dick!! #rsvp Decolonize your practice #Repost @carmen.cool • • • • •
 

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