I just remind myself constantly that I have every right to be in whatever space I am in and I don't have to apologize for it. How do you balance the idea, which you state in your book, that as a fat person you are not allowed to take up space but as a feminist you are expected and encouraged to take up space? There is a great poem that has become a website by a woman named Sonya Renee Taylor called ' The Body is Not an Apology' and I think that is something that everyone should try and embrace.
We do not have to apologize for our bodies. All too often women are apologizing for their bodies and taking up less space. I think it's a very difficult thing but I think it's important for women to recognize that their bodies have value, strength, and beauty at any size and in any way that that body exists.
