The White Doctor Told Me I Was A Fat Black Woman
And that I could never be thin and delicate as a white woman
I was tall and lanky as a child, but somewhere between puberty and the end of university, I started putting on weight. I struggled to find a job after my degree and so, to gain my independence, I ended up working in a fast-food restaurant for a few months.
Management there didn’t give employees enough time at lunch to le…
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