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Gloria Lucas, Part 3 of 4 : A Chicana Girl Leading Women to Colonize the Collective Body of Her People

****This part of the series was accepted for workshopping and presentation at the Public Philosophy Writing Workshop at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which took place between May 18-19th**** For part 3, I'm to redirect our focus a bit from Lucas and her Nalgona Positivity [Pride] by addressing concerns about the body positivity movement in general. Imagine I drive a pickup truck, say, a 1998 Chevy, which requires the action of consuming more fossil fuels than most other types of vehicles. Now, assume I'm a member of a Late-model Chevy Truck Club, whose slogan reads:  “Loving my truck means unapologetically filling it with as many fossil fuels as I want.”  Clearly, mass consumption of fossil fuels is bad for the environment. However, assume my conscious intent is  NOT  to pollute the environment, but merely to have fun with my beloved truck. Y et also assume that I'm aware of the negative effects that mass consumption of fossil fuels has on the envi