Thick or Fat? | In The Middle P2

There is a particular currency in thickness that is not found in fatness. To assign language like “thicc/k” to what can otherwise be understood as fat is to manipulate the pleasure-economy under capitalism—by which I mean the actualizing of new structures in which we find pleasure. This is, as it stands, a way to specifically remove any ability to locate desire in a body that is outright fat and place it solely in bodies with weight that is “proportionate.” For those of us who will never be seen as anything other than fat, we are being told through this use of “thicc/k” that our cages, as Roxane Gay calls the body, are not desirable; that only a particular type of fatness is capable of being beautiful/desired/whole. Not just desirable in the sense of beauty, love, and sex, but desirable as it affects and pertains to our health, our education, our livelihoods. Read article by Da’Shaun Harrison. https://www.kingofreads.com/the-confl... I HAVE A PO BOX :) PO BOX 78511 ATLANTA, GA 30357 Check out For The Culture Podcast http://www.fortheculturepodcast.com/ https://KingOfReads.com Instagram-  / king_of_reads   Facebook-   / justinj1232   Twitter-   / justinj1232