In this rollicking conversation, Aubrey Gordon (she/her) explores her own journey with fatness, the levels that fat folks explore on their own liberation journeys, and what level she’s currently puzzling over. Oh, and there’s also some talk about her new best-selling book, her Maintenance Phase podcast, and how the heck do we find joy amidst the world of anti-fatness.

Aubrey Gordon is the author of What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat and co-host of Maintenance Phase. You might know her as Your Fat Friend.Aubrey Gordon started writing as Your Fat Friend in 2016. She published exclusively under the pseudonym for four years, writing anonymously about the social and cultural realities of moving through the world as a very fat person.

Since starting the project, her work has been published in Literary Hub, The New York Times, Vox, SELF, Health, Roxane Gay’s Unruly Bodies and Jameela Jamil’s IWeigh. She is a regular columnist at SELF Magazine. Her debut book, What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat was released by Beacon Press in November 2020. It is available for purchase at Indiebound.

Today, she cohosts the podcast Maintenance Phase with Michael Hobbes. Together, the two debunk and decode wellness and weight loss trends.

Please connect with Aubrey on her website.

This episode’s poem is called “Ritualised Return,” and it’s by Lauchie Murdoch. If you’d like to purchase his poetry chapbook, you can use the Contact Me on his website.

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