Natalie Slaughter

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.

Why is Marvel casting white actors to play Asian characters?

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...

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

I’m very aware of the fact that I’m fat — trust me. I’ve had this body for longer than you’ve been familiar with it.

Treating women like idiots has the additional consequence of making women less likely to report symptoms in general. It’s really exhausting

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with loving my body. I don’t have to choose between being fat and beautiful, I can be both.

If I have sex with a woman, it does not make me gay. As someone who identifies as female, it doesn’t even make me a lesbian.

[N]o one held my molester down and called the police for what he did to me. He was quietly escorted away, and over the course of a few months, the whispers of support turned into accusations.