A love letter to fat women & other thots
When I wrote WINNIE & JENAY’S CROSS CUNTRY ADVENTURE, it took two days and I finished at 120 pages. Not much of it was any good, as no first draft is, but I knew what it did have: heart and jokes. I wrote it to make myself feel better during weird growing pains, but really i wanted to write something, maybe my only and last thing, something that was dedicated to fat Black and brown women. as a fat child fat teen fat adult, ive dedicated 10 plus years of my career to fat representation in media, and even if it meant putting my body on the line, i was going to fight for us to be seen in comedy, and production.With ED culture and anti fat sentiment making a violent come back, it just felt right to make WJCCA as a pushback to the bullshit.
So for this month, Fat Liberation Month, here are reasons why I made WJCCA as a love letter to fat women & bigger bodies:
Because I'm tired of folks acting like fatphobia ever went away! It definitely has changed form and evolved, but it has never ever truly left.
Because I - along with some of my cast and crew- have lived in a time where being fat was in fact a social death sentence and yet with our sparkly personalities and huge juicy tits, we’ve been able to prevail!
Because not every baddie fattie wants to be a fashion girlie, whether it's because some of us are broke, uninterested or shit just doesn't really fit right still and we can’t take a pretty picture.
Because I resent the fact that yall made the fat lib movement a whos the most fuckable contest. Fat Liberation was never about wanting to be desirable or fuckable. Fat people are already fuckable - you reader, I writer, know this. We didn't want more romantic opportunities, we wanted our doctors, our bosses, our peers to respect us as they do our straight sized counterparts. Self worth being tied to fuckability / desirability politics is trippy! Have you read Belly of the Beast?
Because I actually don't care about intentional weight loss, but I do care about intentional fatphobia from ex-fats - bitches are quick to forget who raised yall!
Because fatphobia is still so pervasive that even I have a hard time identifying other objectively big people out of fear of offending them, so community building can be difficult.
Fatphobia is so pervasive that it’s in every single aspect of our lives, in media in retail in every skinnylicious menu of food, everything is motivated by the fear of becoming fat. It’s in everything! It's getting eerie!
Because thin people are still weird and sometimes evil towards us.
Because we're weird and sometimes evil towards each other, due to internalized fatphobia
Because fatness can feel like its own gender expression
Because people still see our bodies as weak, despite many of us, mighty, in our own ways.
Because the public knows that fatphobia is a form of racism, but they simply don’t care.
Because there are ones who do care, but they get death threats about it every day.
Because I believe that fat women can, will, and do lead beautiful fulfilling lives, without having to tear down or unnecessarily change their bodies
I want the chubby brown autistic girl to see that anything is possible for her
I want the big n tall young boi to know that his body is not a war machine
I want our childhoods to last past an early unrequested puberty
I want affordable bras to fit
Because there are so many stories that go untold if they are not coming from people of a certain size.
Because I want the parentified fat child to know that a desirable future is possible for them.
If you can get behind our mission and want to see Winnie & Jenay succeed, please consider donating to our gofundme, purchasing merch, following our journey on socials, or check out and share our proof of concept with everyone you know. Supporting this project means you can get behind a fat artist poppin her shit and having more body diversity in media.
See one of my fave orgs, the National Association To Advance Fat Acceptance for more information!