I really liked this article on fat rep in romance. One of the things reading it brought up for me, though, is the complexity of representation of something like fat https://twitter.com/BookRiot/status/1304087403095896064

For example, it is really frustrating when the heroine's insecurity is the main obstacle.

Yet, at the same time, insecurity & fear of violent and humiliating rejection IS a lived experience of many fat women's lives

This is why, thinking about the earlier conversation on having to be out in order to be a queer writer, representation in texts is a tricky goddamned business

Effectively, I think the solution is more number and more varied representation

To be fair, the author does ask this same question. I just think it needs to be repeated and I DO think it is extremely important to see fear and trauma played put in a story that offers some kind resolution or justice for those experiences

And of course it is important to see representation that doesn’t rely on those fears and traumas