I remember meeting with my thesis advisor in my final week of college. I was the thinnest I’d ever been, a size 12. Starvation shrank my stomach into a fist. I felt dizzy, but I felt light, and that was all that mattered. Still, I was quietly devastated when, instead of complimenting my research and writing, my advisor praised my weight loss.
Laura Bogart, writer of both a Letter in the Mail and the recent Rumpus essay “Rage,” brings her trademark grit and craft to a Salon essay titled “I choose to be fat.”
