Are You Okay with Being Fat, or Not?

There is a bone-deep exhaustion wrought by living in a world that doesn’t fit, and never will.

When I first began writing on Medium in 2019, I managed to get a piece accepted to Human Parts - one of the bigger, more lauded Medium publications. A lot has changed at Medium since then, both for individual writers and publications, but I was looking for a place to publish this, and yesterday the new editor of Human Parts put out a call for submission…