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Rest Well, And Dream of Large Women

February 17, 2017 by Emperor Cupcake Leave a Comment

In case you haven’t encountered her on the internet, Lindy West is a writer and comedian who battles trolls–the kind that dwell on Twitter instead of beneath bridges. She’s also an audaciously loud, unapologetically fat woman in a world that prefers its women to be quiet and thin. I identified with a lot of what West wrote about in Shrill. Her lifelong struggle with body image issues, her journey to find her voice as a writer, and–most recently–her incredible screw-up of a freelance project. Today, […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor Tagged With: emperorcupcake, fat chicks of the world unite, feminist, Lindy West, Shrill

Emperor Cupcake's CBR9 Review No:19 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Comedy/Humor · Tags: emperorcupcake, fat chicks of the world unite, feminist, Lindy West, Shrill ·
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