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An ode to my fat self: Sasha Borissenko on the painful cycle body-shaming causes

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22 September 2022

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Fat-shaming is an injustice that warrants a deeper analysis, says writer Sasha Borissenko. She chronicles the discrimination she has faced, and asks why are society’s scales so weighted against the large? I was 10 years old, walking across a zebra crossing with my beloved sister, four years my junior. Having lost her ice cream to the…...

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