Natalie Slaughter

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

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.

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.

There’s a lot more to sexuality than meets the eye.

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.

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

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.

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