Making It Awkward

Fat Liberation and Size Freedom Policies with Tigress Osborn


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Jessica talks to Tigress Osborn (she/her), a fat rights advocate and the Executive Director of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, about fat liberation and fat joy. NAAFA has worked for over five decades to change perceptions of fat and to end size discrimination.  In 2023, Tigress co-launched the Campaign for Size Freedom alongside colleagues at NAAFA and the Fat Legal Rights Advocacy and Education Project (FLARE). Tigress is an intersectional feminist teacher and writer whose fat liberation work has been featured in USA Today and Newsweek,  heard on BBC AntiSocial and ABC News, and seen on Everyday Feminism and NewsNation network. Follow NAAFA @naafaofficial and Tigress @iofthetigress.

Story on NYC law https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/364-23/mayor-adams-signs-legislation-prohibit-height-weight-discrimination-employment-housing-#/0

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