LGBTQ Issues Are Racial Justice Issues Are Fat Acceptance Issues, or Everything Is Intersectional

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I have a long commute to work, and I like to listen to a bunch of different podcasts on my drive. One of the ones I listen to regularly is Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness (Queer Eye). During the most recent episode, Jonathan talks with gender non-conforming writer and artist, Alok. This episode was so fantastic and shook me on many levels. I have at least 3 or 4 blog posts that I want to write based on this episode alone.

So, with this post I mostly want to just amplify the episode and Alok’s voice as a gender non-conforming person of color and all the things they have to say. They are so articulate and passionate about the kind of world they want to build, and I am on board with them for it.

One thing in particular that made me want to jump up and down in my car was Alok’s point about how intersectional the fight for rights is because none of us are free until all of us are free. The fight for racial justice is the fight for LGBTQ+ rights. And I want to take that one step further where the fight for racial and LGBTQ+ rights is the fight for fat acceptance. None of us is free until fat queer people of color are free, too.