Aubrey Gordon writes under the pseudonym of "Your Fat Friend," illuminating the experiences of fat people and urging greater compassion for people of all sizes. Her work has reached millions of readers and has been translated into 19 languages. She is co-host of the Maintenace Phase podcast and a columnist with SELF magazine. Her work has also been featured in Health magazine, Vox, and Gay Mag, among others. She lives in the Northwest, where she works as a writer and organizer. Connect with her at yourfatfriend.com, and as YrFatFriend on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
“Everyone who has a fat family member, friend, acquaintance, or
coworker should read this insightful book.”
—Library Journal, Starred Review
“Gordon provides candid storytelling and critical analysis in this
validating and inclusive read.”
—Ms. Magazine
“Writing from a personal and cultural perspective, Gordon goes
beyond cosmetic complaints to undress the depths of anti-fat bias
and discrimination, ultimately rallying for a social justice
movement to form and broaden the scope of the conversation.”
—CultureShift
“Gordon seamlessly threads a personal narrative with data and
history . . . A much-needed and accessible addition to fat
discourse.”
—Ayu Sutriasa, YES! Magazine
ldquo;Few writers approach the realities of living in a fat body,
the pernicious nature of fatphobia, and what it would take for our
culture to radically reimagine our relationships to our bodies than
Aubrey Gordon. . . . Gordon has crafted a manifesto on unapologetic
fatness and fat justice. Her cultural criticism about bodies is
timely, elegant, searing. This book is required reading for
absolutely everyone. The wisdom Gordon offers in these pages is
going to irrevocably change fat discourse, and it comes not a
moment too soon.”
—Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Hunger
“A deeply articulate, validating, and empowering read! Aubrey
Gordon pushes the envelope beyond
feel-good-Instagram-body-positivity and calls for structural change
in our thinking, understanding, and treatment of fat bodies. Your
fat friends need this book, but your thin friends need it even
more.”
—Julie Murphy, author of Dumplin’
“It’s not often you find a book that’s going to save someone’s
life. As a fat person, I felt heard and seen. . . . It’s like
having a fat best friend on your bookshelf, ready to explain
everything that you didn’t think you needed to know about
fatness.”
—Sofie Hagen, author of Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That
Wants to Shrink You
“An authoritative, forceful, splendidly written, and deeply moving
account of the shockingly personal hostility she and other fat
people must endure on a daily basis. You don’t have to agree with
her interpretation of the research on fatness and its consequences
to sign on to her thoroughly convincing demand for respect as a
human being and for what she calls ‘fat justice.’ This book changed
my thinking, and in the best possible way.”
—Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition, food studies, and public
health, emerita, New York University, and author of Let’s Ask
Marion
“She’s one of the great writers of our generation, one of the great
thinkers of our generation . . . I think I’ll never really be the
same afterwards and I feel fresher and smarter and happier for
sitting down with her.”
—Jameela Jamil, iWeigh Podcast
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