What: The kicker for this essay functions as a good and accurate summary - "The power and danger of women who take up space."
Author Carmen Maria Machado touches on The Little Mermaid's Ursula, Fraggle Rock's Marjory the Trash Heap, Venus figurines, and her own grandmother to talk about what it means for a woman to take up space in this world.
Representative quote: "Unapologetic fat women embrace the philosophy of displacement. They manifest the audacity of space-taking. They cleave the very air."
How to get it: "The Trash Heap Has Spoken" was published in Guernica in February of last year.
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