Natalie Slaughter

Is anything keeping you from believing that you deserve good things?

There’s a lot more information about what it’s like to be a fat woman and the things you should and shouldn’t say. Here's what I want everyone to know...

It's okay to dump your friends — even friends who have been there for you in the past. Remember today that you deserve good things and good people.

To claim that something is “just politics” is to point out how much privilege you have, either systematically or incidentally.

Why is Marvel casting white actors to play Asian characters?

I barely had a chance to say “What’s taking him so long?” before he stepped up to the counter to ask me what he could help me with. Me. Not my friend who had been standing there for a minimum of twenty minutes waiting for assistance, but ME, the white girl.

You can learn to live with the pain, you can move on as I have after over a decade of self-reflection and hard work, but you never, ever get over it.

At this point gender basically exists to sell us stuff.