I noticed that the handful of lists on letterboxd for fat positive films only had Hairspray, Isnāt It Romantic, and I Feel Pretty (š¤¢) with the caption āI wish this list was longer!ā
So I have taken it upon myself to compile a real list of real fat liberationist films: films that either confront the issue of fatphobia or portray fat bodies in a liberating way. I will not be including films where fat characters exist neutrally, only films with a message about fatness that does not promote weight loss.
I havenāt seen a majority of these films yet, so if you see one that you believe is not worthy of being on this list, please let me know! additionally, if you have ideas on more films that should be added, please share!
Films (left to right)
1. How to Carry Water (2023) dir. Sasha Wortzel
2. Piggy (2022) dir. Carlotta Pereda
3. Your Fat Friend (2023) dir. Jeanie Finlay
4. Dumplinā (2018) dir. Anne Fletcher
5. Empire Waist (2024) dir. Claire Ayoub
6. PattiCake$ (2017) dir. Geremy Jasper
7. LƤski (2019) dir. Kirsikka Saari
8. Aquaporko! (2013) dir. Kelli Jean Drinkwater, Anna Helme
9. Fat Hiking Club (2018) dir. Layla Cameron
10. Fat Front (2019) dir. Louise Kjeldsen, Louise Detlefsen
11. Disfigured (2008) dir. Glenn Gers
12. Riot Not Diet (2018) dir. Julia Fuhr Mann, Kristina Kilian
13. Straight/Curve: Redefining Body Image (2017) dir. Jenny McQuaile
14. In Our Skin (2017) dir. Rosa Beiroa
15. The Fat Feeling (2019) dir. Talia A. Darling
16. Dangerous Curves (2016) dir. Merete Mueller
17. Well Rounded (2020) dir. Shana Myara
18. Fat Chance (1994) dir. Jeffery McKay
19. Tales of Ordinary Fatphobia (2020) dir. Josiane Blanc
20. Fattitude (2017) dir. Viridiana Lieberman
21. (Not pictured) The Fat Body (In)Visible (2011) dir. Margitte Kristjansson
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My first piece accepted into an art show for 2026ā
Titled: āJasmine, My Greatest Dreamā
Size: 6ā x 6ā
Media: canvas, glitter, beads, bits n bobs
Artist Statement: My wife ran a renowned tumblr degrassi fan blog and I had over 100k tumblarity catfishing as a poetry boyā it could have / should have happened.
I havenāt been able to show Jas, because I am saving it for our valentines date at the show, but I am very proud of this very sentimental piece.
Been thinking about replying with the type of reality check I needed.
Been thinking about rejecting an apology.
With just shit talk instead.
I havenāt responded to the girl who dated my ex (cw: rape) when I was 19/20, because her apology made me instantly want to rip my own skin apart and punch her in the face.
Instead: hereās my response. Consider it being workshopped. Maybe sheāll find thisā I left tumblr because she and him used it to stalk me.
I want to accept your apology-- I can tell your heart is in it -- but I don't think that this is part of my story. While me accepting your apology says more about me and this (capital T) Trauma and nothing about you, I do have words that I think you deserve and need to hear.Ā
There have been many times that I have wondered what I would say to you-- thought about if you're okay.Ā
I want to tell you that I am not angry with you, but I know this message will come off as misguided anger to you if you are not ready to hear it. I think you need to hear it, becauseĀ I don't think you have people in your corner in your life who actually care. I don't have to know anything about you to recoginize that familiarity. Maybe this is tough love that I can only enact because I will never know you and never want to know you. You're a reflection of me and that horrible rapist of a man and, in my world, you will never be unmarried to that. I don't want to talk to you again after this, because I can see how cold and twisting and terrible and vile and wretched shit this all brings up. If he did half a number to you as he did me (and I'm sure he did), then I wonder if you've realized what you went through either.
I think you need a really good friend. Maybe a sister. Maybe a mom who really cares. Maybe I'm projecting, beucase I can look back and see where if I had all of these things, maybe I would be saved.
I want to be honest with you, so 100, not because I want you to feel hurt (I don't think my words wil be nice, and for that I am sorry) but because I want you to hear the truth that I don't think anyone else is picking up on and putting down.Ā
The reason why I cannot accept your apology is because I do not think you have gotten to where you need to be. I only have three pieces of information to go off of here, and all of it sickens me.
2.) Why the fuck did you answer his call in 2022? Apparently your famiyl likes to give him all the range, becuase WHAT THE FUCK? That is absoutley batshit insne behavior that you willingly spoke to him. I hope it is crystal clear to you at how easy you were/are to manipulate and how far you have to go. You need to decenter men. You need to decenter your absolute desire to be chosen or fuckable or loved or wahtever by men, or, at the very least, oiagN otomuboN. You are too old .You are too wise. You are too smart and too creative to be so clearly in this chew up and spit out dance. I was appalled to hear that. It's not that "you're not as healed as me" or whatever self-depricating quirk you put it,it's that you need to value yourself, women, domestic vioelnce, and DECENTER this shit.
3.) You told your uncle. The way that changed so much to me, beuase it remidned me that I was not in a safe space. I know, safe spaces are very liberal bullshit, but for a moment I wondered if that groupchat would be healing and then the little (** oo la la la **) ended because you, Charsley, told his mentor about this??? Further endangering ALL of us, becuase you want so deserpateyl for some man to be on your side that has, well, I assum, never been on your side. IMMEDIATELY, you texted or called or talked to this man, and he is in contact with oiagN. You put my family and me in danger and that is one of the reasons why I refuse this apology. Use it as fuel to get better, because your innate need for wahtever relational need you're trying to get with your uncle PUTS OTHER PEOPLE AT RISK.. I am not trying to be a cunt or a bitch or whatever other term for a appropriately-mad woman, but SERIOSULY?! SERIOSULY?!!! You did that and expect me to accept and apology? We are still at #1 Charlsey.
1.) You contributed to making my life a living hell. I wonder if he told you about stalking my family's home? About stalking my family? Have you thought about what mental gymnastics you had to go through to make this all make sense to you? I get it, you live in Alabama, but it is 2026 and I want to know: have you decentered men yet? I wonder, did Ngaio tell you about the gun threats that lead to him raping me? Did you not know about that, is that why you aided and enbetted him so beautifully? Have you thought about why it made you feel better, as a white woman, to see another white woman experience violence? You were a part of that harm. What does that mean for you now? How have you reckoned? For other women and people and skin tones?Ā Have you thought about and reckoned with that you dated a nazi, or at the very least, a nazi apologist and a raging mysognyist racist? I wanted to hurl my phone across the room with the "you taught me.." bull shit, Charsley. I have not taught you shit.
But I don't think that you have thoguht about these things past the discomfort they make you feel, like really thoguht about your role and where you wanna be, and I think if you have: we wouldnt' be havig this conversation. In my brain, there will always be you in the apartment that he raped me in, holding your stomach like you were pregnant to convince me not protect myself from the man who showed me just how bad this can get.
I don't think you have held the magnitude of what you did when you weren't strong in yourself and where you want to be. I am worried that without knowing that you did somethign I cannot forgive and without knowing that magnitude that you won't understand how you'ren ot just hurting yourself, you're hurting everyone.
