What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice.

Anti-fatness is every…

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