“Your Fat Friend” (2023)

This is an abridged transcript of an interview with Jeanie Finlay, the director of Your Fat Friend (2023) featuring Aubrey Gordan by Allegra Morgado. The interview was done via Zoom on August 1st, 2025. Your Fat Friend has significantly contributed to the project of fat liberation since its release, and we wanted to use this space to reflect on the powerful filmmaking and narratives that center fatness. The film has been incredibly meaningful to folks across the fat studies and fat activist community globally, and we hope this interview and the reflection shared by Morgado (2024) following this interview, encourage more people to watch this film, and also envision a fat future and worldmaking where their own bodies and stories can be generated via connection.