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Wait for it. for anyone who may need them in our show notes. So earlier this season, about a month ago, we did the BBW episode, and our story editor, Sarah Dealey, introduced us to someone very important within the fat activism space.

Let's go back a moment for a quick refresher.

I think the magazine was the first time I heard the acronym.

And I always thought that the people who used it in other ways got it from the magazine.

This is Tigris Osborne.

Today, she serves as the head of the National Association to Advance Fat fat acceptance, known as NAFA.

But back in the arts...

I promoted a nightclub event in Oakland and San Francisco that was called Full Figure Friday.

And when I started, we called it a BBW party because that's what the other parties were called.

That's what you called it if you had a

party that was for fat ladies. That was 2008. But my party is not the first party. Like the

BVW parties go back way before my party. Part of the vibe was a nightlife space that was sexy.

You put on your sassy clothes. If your man, you put on your

dress shoes. And for my club, it was very much like, we want you to have your martini in a

martini glass, not in a plastic cup. Like, there was a vibe. There was an ambiance we were

trying to create. While editing the BBW episode, I was interested in talking more with Tigris about her experiences event planning and organizing in the fat space.

We met virtually and had one conversation, but then decided we should keep talking because we both enjoyed it.

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