YOUR FAT FRIEND
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A humorous, personal and immensely educational manifesto about being fat in a world designed for thin people. Based on the iconic lyrics of bestselling author and activist Aubrey Gordon.

'Just be fat'. With that call, the activist author Aubrey Gordon begins his personal story about being fat in a world made for thin people. A cinematic manifesto recorded over six years, from her start as an anonymous blogger to her breaking anonymity to become a best-selling author and famous podcaster with all that follows from praise, private messages from the singer Adele and death threats. Her goal is to create a paradigm shift in the way we look at fat people and the fat that sits on our own bodies. But most of all, it's getting her own parents to listen and understand what she's really going through. 'Your Fat Friend' is a touching and humorous film about fatness, family, the complexities of changing things, and our messy relationship with our own and others' bodies. But as Aubrey Gordon himself says, the solution is quite simple, because it's just about treating fat people as what they are - namely people.