Dark’s talk, laced with humor, sex, and readings about her life experiences in a world that hates fat, addressed changing the narrative on the word “fat” from negative to neutral. She touched on themes about accepting yourself and realizing that “you can change you. Imagine that,” Dark said. “Here’s one of the things that happens when you change you is that you might find out that some of your assumptions about what will happen if you behave a certain way are wrong or you might find out you’re right, and you learn more about what happens as you change you.”
Speaker Gives the Skinny on Being Fat
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