I'm fat and if they don't make a sexy dress in my size, I'm going to have one of my neighbors make one like I'm going to the club

That was like sort of my first exposure so like you can be fat and still be fly

You know, I went to one of the parties and the DJ pissed me off about something and

When I came home and was complaining about it my roommate was like why don't you just start your own party like you always say you're going to

I didn't remember having talked about starting my own party until he said that but within a couple months

I had started my own party. I don't want to spend my weekends in this messy dramatic club world

I just want to throw fun parties where people can get dressed up

This is who hurt you a podcast in which I deep dive into interesting people's brains to get them to tell me stuff

They've never told anyone before. I'm Sophie Hagen, comedian, writer, influencer, hot guy

In order to introduce you to today's guest, I have to go back to the late 60s

When we saw the sort of official start to what we today see as the body positivity movement

In 1969 a man called Bill Fabrey started NAFA the national association to aid fat Americans the first fat acceptance group of its kind

In 1972 a chapter of NAFA called the fat underground formed and separated from NAFA as they didn't find NAFA

To be radical enough the first wave of fat acceptance was all about demolishing systemic fat phobia

The focus was not on fat people needing to love their bodies

It was about the system and how it needed to stop teaching people to hate their bodies

That's the brief description

Cut to today

Fat acceptance and fat liberation has been sugarcoded by thin people

And is now seen as the more digestible body positivity

Where we don't critique the system. We just focus on loving our curves

But NAFA still exists. It's now called the national association to advance fat acceptance

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