“I’ve never been part of something that compares to the acceptance, the empowerment, the collective care and the collective fight, the space to be wholly yourself that is the disability…
“This was a noninstitutionalized reaction. This was political, intentional, we’re gonna be fat and queer and creative and sexy and empowering and a collective action.”
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