Your Fat Friend

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• About — Your Fat Friend

  Meet Your Fat Friend. In 2016, Aubrey Gordon began writing anonymously about the social realities of life as a very fat person, publishing under the name Your Fat Friend. Her work has been covered in...

• A request from your fat friend: what I need when we talk about bodies. — Your Fat Friend

  I need you to listen closely. I need you to believe me when I tell you what happens. I need you to say the word “fat.”  About me. Because I am. I’m a size 26 — fat enough that some stores for fat pe...

• What your fat friend needs from you. — Your Fat Friend

  “Imagine you’re a two hundred pound woman.” I was in choir practice in high school, fifteen and overeager in all things. We had just performed an original piece for its composer, and were electric w...

• What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat - out November 17! — Your Fat Friend

  That’s right—I wrote a book for you dreamboats! What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat will be out November 17, 2020 from Beacon Press.

• Your fat friend wants to talk about fatphobia. — Your Fat Friend

  I’ve been asking you to be more considerate of what you do & don’t say to me. But this conversation doesn’t end there. Today, I’m asking you to examine and question the ways in which the world is set ...

• Media — Your Fat Friend

  Selected Media   Print & web