Lizzo has never positioned herself as a fat liberationist. she has always been a Black woman who was also fat and therefore chose to love herself out loud, not someone who was committed to fat liberation by name. so the response to this is weird. representation politics fail us.

does that erase the impact of her actions on the rest of fat Black folks not in her position? absolutely not. but the anger being launched at her for not being the person many people projected onto her to be is weird and fucked up.

“body positivity” is not fat liberation, body neutrality, or anything of that nature. placing a politic on someone else is actually violence, and being angry at them for not embodying that politic will only harm us all.

i know that a lot of my peers and even my friends don’t and won’t agree with this. that’s fine. but so many of this cages Lizzo, and other fat folks too, in a way that i’m wholeheartedly opposed to as an abolitionist AND a fat liberationist.

do i disagree with what she did? of course. diet culture and the overall diet industrial complex is violent af. but this overwhelming response feels so removed and unfair.

it’s the mammification of it all for me.

*this is not a space for any of you weirdo fatphobes, so i am happily going through and blocking all of you as i see your comments*