NAAFA Community Connect - Boston
Thursday, November 20, 2025
7:00pm
BU George Sherman Student Union
775 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
Duration: 1 hour
Attention fat folks and friends in Boston, Massachusetts!
The NAAFA Community Connect local meetings keep on coming! Next up... Boston! Whether you’re brand new to fat liberation or a seasoned advocate who wants to connect with local community, join us Thursday evening, November 20th at 7pm at the George Sherman Student Union, Boston University. Our executive director, Tigress Osborn, will give a short presentation on NAAFA’s historical and current role in the fat rights movement, including updates on the Campaign for Size Freedom. Then we’ll do a Q&A with author Anastasia Kidd of @fatchurch about intersections of fat liberation and interfaith spirituality. Then stay to mix and mingle with old friends and new!
Don’t forget-- Massachusetts has a pending bill to ban height and weight discrimination! We expect the hearing to be scheduled late fall/early winter. Stay tuned for info and be sure to sign the Campaign for #SizeFreedom petition at naafa.org/sizefreedom!
This is a free event for fat and fat-positive folks of all ages. See you there!
Please come prepared to mask! (KN94 masks will be provided.)
Please reach out to us at naafa.org/contact if you need any accessibility accommodations no later than Tuesday 11/18!
GUEST BIOS:
The Rev. Dr. Anastasia Kidd (she/her) is the author of Fat Church: Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation.
She is a pastor, educator, storyteller, and fat activist who studies how Christian colonialism helped establish structural anti-fatness in U.S. society and beyond. A theological educator at the Boston University School of Theology, Anastasia believes that identifying with unrepentant fatness can reconnect humanity with the abundance of nature, the practice of sustainable communal relationships, and the cultivation of beautiful and pleasurable ethics.
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Tigress Osborn (she/her) is the Executive Director of NAAFA. She previously volunteered as NAAFA’s Board Chair and Director of Community Outreach. In addition to overseeing NAAFA’s day-to-day operations, Tigress hosts and produces the NAAFA Webinar Series, which features a wide variety of activists, scholars, and artists from fat community. Tigress has been featured on CNN, ABC News, and NPR. She is the co-editor of Weight and Wisdom: Reflections on Decades of Working for Body Liberation. In 2024, Tigress was named to the Time Health100 list for her civil rights work with NAAFA and the Campaign for Size Freedom. Prior to working with NAAFA, Tigress founded Full Figure Entertainment in Oakland, CA, and co-founded the PHX Fat Force in Arizona. She is a two-time women's college graduate with degrees from Smith College and Mills College. She lives near Phoenix with her awesome mom. Follow Tigress @iofthetigress on your favorite social media.
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