Thursday, January 11, 2024, 7:00 PM, Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia, a FAN webinar featuring
Kaye Manne, Ph.D., in conversation with Roxane Gay, Ph.D.

REGISTER: www.bit.ly/ManneFANWebinar

BONUS AFTER-HOURS EVENT: Attendees who purchase a copy of Unshrinking from FAN’s partner
bookseller The Book Stall are invited to attend an AFTER-HOURS event hosted by Manne that will start
immediately after the webinar. Details on the webinar registration page.

In her latest book Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia, Kate Manne, Ph.D., an associate professor of
philosophy at Cornell University, delivers a definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal
experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to
combat it.

Blending intimate stories with the trenchant analysis that has become her signature, Manne shows why
fatphobia has become a vital social justice issue. She examines how anti-fatness operates—how it leads us
to make devastating assumptions about a person’s attractiveness, fortitude, and intellect, and how it
intersects with other systems of oppression. Fatphobia is responsible for wage gaps, medical neglect, and
poor educational outcomes; it is a straitjacket, restricting our freedom, our movement, our potential.

In this urgent call to action, Manne proposes a new politics of “body reflexivity”—a radical reevaluation of
who our bodies exist in the world for: ourselves and no one else. When it comes to fatphobia, the solution
is not to love our bodies more. Instead, we must dismantle the forces that control and constrain us and
remake the world to accommodate people of every size.

Manne will be in conversation with Roxane Gay, Ph.D. a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times
and the acclaimed bestselling author of Bad Feminist, Difficult Women, and Hunger. Gay is also the author
of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has a newsletter, The Audacity, and once had a podcast, The Roxane
Gay Agenda.

This event suitable for youth 12+. It will be recorded and available on FAN’s website and YouTube channel.