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This beautiful piece is by @taraobrienillustration. 

I love the idea of taking up space, ESPECIALLY if you’re a woman, a femme, fat, disabled, queer, Black, Indigenous, or at some other intersection of identity that the world tries to control and make small (or render completely invisible). Taking up space, for me, is complicated. It’s obvious to me that people are uncomfortable sitting beside me on planes or public transportation. It’s obvious to me that theatre seats and clothing and outdoor gear never EVER had my body in mind. I used to feel like that meant I was the wrong one or the broken one. Now I’m starting to feel into a space where perhaps it’s not my body that is wrong, but instead the fact that people who create things and make things refuse to acknowledge the benign and very natural thing that is body diversity - we come in so many shapes and sizes and everyone KNOWS that. So to design something without making different options available is to make a choice that some people don’t matter, that some people don’t belong in this space. Take up that space. Spread out. It might be scary. It might be terrifying - especially if you have to ask for a different seat or an extender. But the problem is not you. It is not you or your body. When we expand instead of contract, we start opening to the possibilities that are our bodies and our minds and our talents. Expand. Open. Let us see you. The world needs that. It needs you. Join more of this conversation at exploremoresummit.com. There are 14 amazing speakers talking about this very thing - for free and entirely online - starting Monday, December 4th. You deserve to be seen.

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