2015 Funny Women Awards winner Desiree Burch has made a new online series made with Little Dot studios called Profiles In Fatness, which addresses fat activism, the absence of fat women in 1980s media and the life experiences of plus-sized women.
In the six-part series Burch interviews experts on subjects such as societal norms, historical highlights and sees if we can trace the roots of fatphobia.
Burch said: “I’m just someone trying to exist in the wonderful world that the fat activists who came before me created, and tell others it’s okay to as well. You. You reading this right now. Your body is awesome. And I know for a fact you can’t be told that enough. Even while you are hating on some part of it, when all it wants to do is hold you up, hold you together, and take you all the places you want to go.
“This series is for everyone with a body, because a society hell-bent on our productivity, consumption and obedience has conditioned you to hate the one thing that is truly yours.
“This series is me taking a swing at my own form of oppression by celebrating bodies like mine and voices like mine, all of which have the power to fly in the face of a world full of hate.”
In the first episode the comedian talks to Your Fat Friend blogger Aubrey Gordon about how fatness is dealt with in the media, the funny fat men of 1990s Hollywood films and how bigger women were portrayed.
Future episodes will address music, sports, fashion, power, and more.
The forthcoming episodes will cover music, sport, fashion, power and glory hate.
