Fat Trans Experience Vs Trans Fats— Who Will Win?!? /Seconds
If you google
“Fat trans experience”
The majority of results
You will get
Have to do with
Trans fats.
I get it, that’s how
SEO works!
The most likely match
Is what will show first.
But
Is not the only place
That confuses
Fat trans experience
With Trans fats —
It’s almost as if
In an effort
To cleanse America
Of its greatest shame—
Fat bodies !!—
We, as a society
All participate
In the erasure of the fat experience.
Not only will
Fat bodies be cut and sliced
Shamed and dieted until they are
The same as everyone else—
They will be silenced
On the internet, in person, in
Publications as well as
In self-help guides.
It is currently
Considered
A radical belief
To love your fat body.
Radical.
Please !!
What is the standard for you all
For radical ?!
For me— it’s
Something or someone that makes a change
Inescapable.
I suppose
In that way
All fat bodies are radical
Loved or not
Positive or negative
To have a fat body and to not
Cut out your stomach in protest
Is a
Radical belief set in 2021
And it will continue to be
In 2022, and so on—
But I digress
If you are
Unlucky enough
To be both
Fat and trans
You have a “simple” choice at hand
Survive erasure, persist
Fleeing from the other end of a pencil
All to be poked with the sharp end
By a theee year old at a bus stop—
Or
Erase yourself
And
Never, ever talk about it
Never say it was hard
Never say you experienced
Any shame, any discrimination, any hardship
Spend the rest of your life
Pretending as if you don’t know
What happens if you have
Seconds.