when we stop laughing at your fat-prejudice disguised as jokes
when we stop apologizing for provoking your fear sor evoking your fantasies
when we stop trying to convince ourselves that half a banana for lunch is eating normally when we stop letting you dump your body-hatred on us
because you're never thin enough
when we stop giving you permission to define us we begin to get angry
and when we begin to count the cost in dollars and non-sense
of a lifetime of trying to play it your weigh
when we begin to honor the truth of our own experience
over the lies you've taught us
when we begin to nourish our bodies with food
and our spirits with love
when we begin to move freely
unconstrained
unselfconscious
walk
dance
work out
make love
when we begin to realize that fat is beautiful
we become powerful
anger is power
power is freedom
freedom is dangerous
an angry fat woman is a dangerous thing
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