if your partner body shames you for any reason, whether its your height, your weight, how skinny or fat you are, leave (or talk to them, but if they dont change, leave). they dont deserve you if theyre going to treat your body like that.
ransacked to the waist, hounded under gales. of black hair, eyes burdened with longing, you are left behind, the lyre in your hand. fretted with the chords of the sea. - andrew miller
Fragments of Sappho, circa 630 - 580 BC. Translated by Anne Carson
[image description: a black and white drawing of a slightly cracked black figure vase. in the center of the pot is a reproduction of simeon solomon’s painting “sappho and erinna in a garden at mytilene,” showing a dark-skinned woman embracing a light-skinned woman and kissing her. the drawing is captioned, “someone will remember us, i say, even in another time” with “i say” carved into the rim of the vase.]
