Aubrey Gordon (@YrFatFriend)

Comedian, actor, and Emmy Award-winning writers Rosebud Baker (The Motherload, Saturday Night Live, Inside Amy Schumer) and Judy Gold (Not Suitable for Work, Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness) join Jameela for an episode that somehow ends up on the freeway.Two women with ...  Show more

Actress, author, producer, and model Garcelle Beauvais (Coming to America, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills) and comedian, writer, and actor Ron Funches (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Black-ish, Season 4 of The Traitors) join Jameela to discuss the many ways a ...  Show more

Aubrey Gordon – activist, author, and teacher – talks to us about anti-fat bias and the way it manifests in employment disparities, our healthcare system, our dinner table conversations, and our parenting. She teaches us about “concern trolling” and other ways anti-fatness hides ...  Show more

The girlies unpack fatphobia and the history of fatness. They discuss the racist roots of modern-day body standards, how we can think about anti-fat bias through the lens of eating disorder recovery, and lament the failings of the American medical system (again). Digressions i ...

As a writer and podcaster, Aubrey Gordon is working to debunk common wellness fads, educate people about anti-fat bias, and ultimately inspire action for fat justice. After years of blogging under the pseudonym Your Fat Friend, Gordon now has two books, What We Don’t Talk ...

“They find our bodies repulsive.” On episode 96 of Overthink, Ellie and David bring on Dr. Kate Manne, philosopher and author of Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia. She explains the moral failures and biomedical perils of our fatphobic culture and its misleading imperative to die ...  Show more