Fat People Have Sex – And It’s Not New

Growing up, Nichelle Brunner thought she’d never have sex. In the pre-social media age, she saw no representations of fat women being desired, anywhere. But as an adult, she’s a proud, Black, queer, fat woman — and she’d definitely doing it.

Here, Nichelle talks about people who would have sex with her but shame her in public — or even ignore her. Come for the sex; stay for the dismantling of fatphobia and colonialism.