Unmasking Bias: How "No Fats No Fems" Challenges Queer Stereotypes and Sparks Powerful Conversations
I am fat. I have only ever been the average weight for my age and height at birth, when the scales read seven pounds, ten ounces. Shortly thereafter, a constellation of reasons added to my growing circumference. I have dieted on and off over the years, but as Harvey Fierstein’s drag persona Virginia Ham sings in Torch Song Trilogy, “the poundage returned to the scene of the crime.” I am—ironically? No, gratefully?—what is referred to as “miraculously fat” in Japanese, in that I have no metabolic disorders and, equally miraculously, no sleep apnea, so I don’t qualify for GLP-1 medications either, a fact that reinforced my acceptance love of my zaftig dimensions.
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