Fat people have long been stigmatized and harshly judged as not “doing enough” to take care of themselves, disregarding the impact of socioeconomic factors on people’s access to healthy food…
I hope the lesson from this journey is to advocate for yourself to access the testing, results, treatments, therapy, and providers that you need and deserve.
Autostraddle has been doing independent queer journalism for 16+ years, and we rely on ad revenue to pay our gay team and writers. There are two ways to keep us going: let the ads through, or subscribe.
AF Media Annual · $48/yr ($4/mo) · ad-free reading