What if because you were big, you’d learned to do things like sit in a chair so it didn’t make noise or fold your body in certain ways so that you appeared to be smaller?

Athena Dixon, author, poet and founder of Linden Avenue Literary Journal, spent years presenting herself to the world in a way that wouldn’t call attention to her size. 

But what would you do if one day you decided the word FAT was holding you in a cage and you no longer wanted to play small? Would you keep shrinking away from your truth and stay put? Or would you flip off our society’s diet culture and stand tall in your own field of honor?

More From Athena Dixon:

Visit her website: https://athenadixon.com

Buy her book The Incredible Shrinking Woman

Finding Athena Dixon:

Instagram: @D_muse_paper

Twitter: @athenaddixon

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