Fat Acceptance, Fat Poets Speak and Community

Some people say that there is no such thing as a community of fat people. This may or may not be true, but there is certain such a thing a a community for Fat Acceptance. When we take the dramatic and radical step of accepting ourselves, we automatically acquire a community. We then start seeing not only ourselves differently, but those in our community, as well. They become strong and beautiful with the same strength and some of the same beauty that we wear like a burst of light when we all start seeing and appreciating each other fatly.

And this is the premise behind Fat Poets Speak 2.

In the first volume, Fat Poets Speak: Voices of the Fat Poets' Society, we were voices talking, crying out, screaming, whispering, laughing. But we were voices, just beginning to gain embodiment. In Fat Poets Speak 2: Living and Loving Fatly, we become bodies, hopes and dreams connected to the voices as we go about living our day(s). The strength we derive to live our days and go on living our days sometimes comes from knowing exactly what I stated in the paragraph above: that we are indeed a community in Fat Acceptance, and that there are more and more of us over time.