Final Post: On This Day

Okay, it’s not exactly my words, but it’s probably the most beautiful thing I’ve seen for or about fat people. It’s from Charlotte Cooper’s speech from NOLOSE this year… Charlotte, if you stumble across this blog and you’d prefer I didn’t include it, let me know and I’ll take it down, but I just wanted to include this bit for everyone who has hope that someday the world will be a better place for fat people, for people of all shapes and sizes and walks of life, and the archivist did bid way way up on the actual notes but I lost, blast it! The archivist in me is forlorn…

Anyway, before I get all teary-eyed, an excerpt from On This Day:

I walk past a playground in which a bunch of kids choose team members for a game of rounders and the fattest and most popular kid is chosen first, with cheers all around. Over by the bench there’s another kid reading a book about the history of the fat rights movement, she probably got it from her high school library, all this information is freely available.

I’ve got to nip into the doctor’s for a minor complaint and he sorts me out without any fuss. He’s got some diet sheets from the olden days up on his wall, in frames, and we laugh at their ridiculous claims. “I’m glad those days are over,” he says, “but I keep these sheets to remind me how arrogant and ignorant we doctors used to be about weight. The trouble we caused, and what a waste of time all that weight loss stuff was. Never again.”

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