In 2016, Aubrey Gordon found herself penning a letter to a friend. It pertained to the way Aubrey felt about her experiences as a fat woman compared to her friends’ thin experiences. After a friend proofed the writing to “make sure I wasn’t being a jerk”, she was prompted by them to post it online. Titled “A request from your fat friend: what I need when we talk about bodies”, the article, posted on blogging platform Medium, was done so under the pseudonym Your Fat Friend. This letter changed Aubrey’s life.
Over the next few years, her fun, insightful musings on the anti-fatness that she experiences in everyday life quickly found people that her anonymous writing resonated with. One of which was documentary filmmaker Jeanie Finlay, who started documenting Aubrey’s journey two months after the original post.
This review was posted on June 9th 2023. Full review linked below.
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