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Event Opportunity in Liverpool: Your Fat Friend Screening + Jeanie Finlay Q&A

Tue 06 Feb

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Picturehouse at FACT

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Event Opportunity in Liverpool: Your Fat Friend Screening + Jeanie Finlay Q&A
Event Opportunity in Liverpool: Your Fat Friend Screening + Jeanie Finlay Q&A

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06 Feb 2024, 18:00 – 20:00 GMT

Picturehouse at FACT, 88 Wood St, Liverpool L1 4DQ, UK

About the Event

WFTV members are invited to this special screening in Liverpool hosted by Reclaim the Frame of , followed by a Q&A with director .Your Fat FriendJeanie 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…

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