![]() When I first started to vocalise that I, too, identified as a bad bitch, many of my peers treated it as if it was satirical. My body has put me on the receiving end of violently hurtful fat phobia and sexism, but it has simultaneously created an opportunity for me to reconsider my gender identity, sexuality, and feminism outside of the rules that had been written for me. If you’re a Black girl like me, with the misfortune of being both fat and “built bad,” existing outside the aesthetic rules means that you’ve committed an egregious act against the social order. Women who find themselves too far away from the center of beauty norms are often treated as if they’ve committed treason, our aesthetic a public-facing betrayal of our refusal to conform, our refusal to go to any lengths necessary to be valuable to society-specifically, to its men. Have you ever noticed that there are no such concessions made for fat Black girls, ever? White beauty norms will always find themselves a seat at the table, even ours, and that includes vicious fat phobia. ![]() ![]() We call those women who are shaped less like hourglasses and more like the hour hand on a clock “slim thick” or “model material” and keep it moving without comment. You ever peep how many exceptions to the hourglass standard are made for Black girls who are thinner? Think: Rihanna, Ciara, Halle Berry, Tyra Banks, or any of the unshapely, skinny light-skinned girls you went to school with.
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