Your Fat Friend
After the screening, join us for a discussion about contemporary fat activism and pending local legislation with Bigger Bodies Boston and Rev. Dr. Anastasia Kidd, author of Fat Church.
Made over 6 years, Your Fat Friend charts the rise of writer and activist Aubrey Gordon from anonymous blogger “Your Fat Friend” to NYTimes best selling author and beloved podcaster. Her aim—a paradigm shift in the way we see fat people in the world and the fat on our own bodies.
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ABOUT BIGGER BODIES BOSTON
BBB is an all-volunteer community-building and social justice organization dedicated to creating fat community, fighting anti-fat bias, and promoting fat liberation.
ABOUT ANASTASIA KIDD
Rev. Dr. Anastasia Kidd, is a pastor, educator, storyteller, and fat activist who studies how Christian colonialism helped establish structural anti-fatness in U.S. society and beyond. She believes that identifying with unrepentant fatness can help undermine all that is wrong with the world by reconnecting humanity with the abundance of nature, practicing sustainable communal relationships, and cultivating beautiful and pleasurable ethics. Find her @FatChurch on Instagram and at FatChurch.org.
About Jasmin Lino
Jasmin is a Bronx-raised baddie with ancestral roots in Honduras’ Garifuna diaspora and serves on the Board of Directors and is a Social Media Facilitator for Bigger Bodies Boston. She has a degree in Computer Information Systems from New England College and outside of BBB, she now works in compliance for a regional corporation. Jasmin continues to see Beyoncé at every available opportunity. Her fatness is not up for discussion. She lives by the golden rule: do unto others as you would like done onto you. She enjoys fish, rice and beans, her goldendoodle Toby and the beach.
About Maggie Bowlby
Maggie Bowlby serves on the Board of Directors at Bigger Bodies Boston as the Clerk. After a lifetime of diet culture, Maggie began her fat liberation journey around 2016, and joined BBB as part of the planning team for their first Fat Pool Party in 2023. Maggie is passionate about fighting anti-fatness, ableism, and healthism with the BBB team. In her career outside of BBB Maggie has experience as a special educator, and as a manager and trainer at a nonprofit focused on neurodiversity.
