Talk Poverty
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4th March 2019
I Couldn't Spend Money Like My Classmates. So I Tried To Eat Like Them.
The biggest culture shock I ever experienced was not when I moved from the U.S. to the U.K., but when I moved from the South to Southern California. I was not prepared for the food and everything I didn’t realize it would represent when it came to race, class, and fatphobia — and how much that had permeated my own thinking in ways I never realized.