Natalie Slaughter

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

At this point gender basically exists to sell us stuff.

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.

Because you only get one shot at life.

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.

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

Even a Google search will conflate “queer women” with “lesbian.” So the first and most obvious thing I wish people understood about being a queer woman, is that we exist.

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.