I look at my older writing to see where my weaknesses are and then I try to address those weaknesses and make new mistakes.

I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned.

Generally, the ways we discuss the fat body pathologize it; we treat it as a medical problem and/or a social problem that must be solved. "Morbid obesity" is in many ways saying we are the walking dead. Or walking to our death. And that is no way to live, with that sort of moniker hanging over your head at all times. I think it forces fat people to internalize a lot of unnecessary self-loathing.

I see my tweets as a current joining a bunch of other currents in the world's craziest ocean.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.