Event Opportunity in Exeter: Your Fat Friend Screening

WFTV members are invited to this special screening in Exeter hosted by Reclaim the Frame of Your Fat Friend, with a livestreamed introduction by director Jeanie Finlay.

Made over 6 years, director Jeanie Finlay charts the rise of writer and activist Aubrey Gordon from anonymous blogger “Your Fat Friend” to NYTimes best-selling author and beloved podcaster.

Her searingly honest writing describes what it’s like to be that fat person on the plane and how the fantasies, peddled by a diet and wellness industry worth $26 billion a year are on a par with the lies that Big Tobacco told the public in the 1950s. (95% of diets fail for lasting weight loss). And how the biggest threat to fat people’s health might just be the bias that some many health care providers hold for fat people. …and about her own fractured relationship to her body.

She spent a decade campaigning…