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.

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

If I have sex with a woman, it does not make me gay. As someone who identifies as female, it doesn’t even make me a lesbian.

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.

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

Treating women like idiots has the additional consequence of making women less likely to report symptoms in general. It’s really exhausting

Why is Marvel casting white actors to play Asian characters?

Even a Google search will conflate “queer women” with “lesbian.” So the first and most obvious thing I wish people understood about being a queer woman, is that we exist.

[N]o one held my molester down and called the police for what he did to me. He was quietly escorted away, and over the course of a few months, the whispers of support turned into accusations.