Your Fat Friend

  • Documentary
2/9/2024
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Charting Aubrey Gordon's journey from anonymous blogger to NY Times bestselling author and podcast host, and the complexities of making change. It’s a film about fatness, family and the deep, messy feelings all of us hold about our bodies.

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    • Brent_Marchant

      They say you can never truly understand what its like to feel what someone else experiences until youve walked a mile in his or her shoes. Thats often been said about many of those in minority communities, and, thankfully, some progress in understanding appears to have been made in those cases over the years. But one segment of society in which little advancement has been made involves those who are appreciably bigger than many in the mainstream (i.e., those who are fat). For some reason, fat folks continue to be systematically marginalized if not outright derided in countless ways, and theres often been little that they can do about these pervasive attacks. Now, however, writer-director Jeanie Finlays new documentary profile of author/po...

      May 25, 2024

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