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 ...