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With ‘No Fats, No Femmes,’ Fatima Jamal Aims for More than Just Visibility and Representation
By Tre’vell Anderson — 2020
“Representation and visibility is given to us by larger power structures, but what do we give ourselves? I’m more interested in that. What questions are we asking ourselves to grow and heal? To challenge the ways this world constantly teaches us to hate ourselves?”
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