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below is the beginning of dion’s essay “the woes of being a fat person on an airplane”
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as i’m planning for some end-of-year travel to see my loved ones, i find myself hella apprehensive about preparing to fly to get to some of my destinations. i live in the Pacific Northwest, and most of my people are dispersed across Turtle Island, so it takes significant resources – including time, energy, and coin – to get the opportunity to spend physical time together.
i have felt anxious about air travel since the first time i flew, and it’s arguably gotten worse the older and more disabled i’ve gotten. my worries are less about plane crashes or the fear of heights (although i have a lot of intrusive thoughts about these that always come up, which do cause a lot of discomfort). instead, most of my anxiety really boils down to how inaccessible airports and airplanes themselves are. as a Black trans person who is both fat and disabled, it feels like everything about air travel is exclusionary for people like me. it is exhausting.
Finish reading dion’s essay and check out their others on Substack! linked here and below
the woes of being a fat person on an airplane
ama june (they/them) is a writer, facilitator, artist, and dreamer originally from the unceded lands of the Shawnee, Miami, Hopewell, and Wyandotte peoples (so-called Columbus, Ohio). dion’s practice centers on climate and disability justice, abolition, and working toward liberated Black trans futures. having cultivated spaces for grassroots organizing, political education, cultural work, and mutual aid efforts, dion is a catalyst dedicated to disrupting state violence and imagining new worlds. In their free time, dion enjoys chatting with the trees, visiting the water, and spending time with loved ones. email: [email protected] IG: scorpionsunflwr
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