““Big Girl” came to me as a reaction to the fact that women are always the wrong size, no matter where they are in life. There is no way to be right, no finish line. The most beautiful women in the world are harangued for any perceived imperfection, any dimple out of place or deviation from the taste or preference of the beholder. Girls and women are told to be smaller, be bigger, be rounder, be flatter, all our lives. I made Bianca grow and shrink with the world’s perception of a woman’s sexual capital, and I think any woman can see herself in that, even if she was never big enough to destroy a city. In telling the story in every voice but hers, I got to explore the ways in which women are often commodified and rarely heard” {read}