This is the third of three posts today of things other people emailed me, which I love. Thanks, all!
In reference to me posting Kameron Hurley's essay, "Public Speaking While Fat", bink sent me this essay, "Is This You?"
by her writing teacher, Amy Salloway, about being the subject of a photo that went around the Internet mocking her as a fat woman.
It starts:
< "Amy Salloway has been called 'kick-ass funny and achingly poignant', 'raw and fearless',
and 'the voice for all of us who were picked last for kickball'.
In reference to me posting Kameron Hurley's essay, "Public Speaking While Fat", bink sent me this essay, "Is This You?"
by her writing teacher, Amy Salloway, about being the subject of a photo that went around the Internet mocking her as a fat woman.
It starts:
"One night, about ten months ago, … I got an email from my mother, with whom I haven’t spoken in a decade, because we’re estranged.
She wrote, “Hi, Amy. I hope you’re doing well. I got a hip replaced. Your sister had two more babies. Say, I’m on Ellen DeGeneres’s funny mailing list, and… is this you?!?!”
And what she attached was – apparently Ellen sends out a humorous email to her bazillion-people fan base once a week, and on this particular week, she sent viewer-submitted photos of humans doing hilariously misguided shenanigans, and there was that same photo – of the fat woman, in overalls, sitting in a chair, on a treadmill…watching TV."
< "Amy Salloway has been called 'kick-ass funny and achingly poignant', 'raw and fearless',
and 'the voice for all of us who were picked last for kickball'.
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