NAAFA Community Connect - New Haven, CT
Saturday, October 4, 2025
11:00am
New Haven Free Public Library
133 Elm Street, New Haven, CT 06510
Duration: 1 hour
[Accessibility description: This flyer for the NAAFA Community Connect New Haven event includes three slides with pink background, logos for NAAFA and the Campaign for Size Freedom, , as well as polaroid-style photos of Tigress Osborn and Megan Pitchard, and a small image of a KN94 face mask. Text on the flyer is printed in blue, white, and black. Slide 1 text reads: “NAAFA Community Connect New Haven. Hosted by Tigress Osborn (she/her) @naafaofficial. Special Guest Megan Pitchard (she/her). Learn about NAAFA, fat liberation, and the Campaign for Size Freedom. Hear from ! Please mask. (KN94 masks provided) Register at NAAFA.org/events.”]
Attention fat folks and friends in New Haven, Connecticut!
The NAAFA Community Connect local meetings keep on coming! Next up... New Haven, CT. Whether you’re brand new to fat liberation or a seasoned advocate who wants to connect with local community, join us on Saturday, October 4 at the New Haven Free Public Library. 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 Fat Babes Connecticut founder Megan Pitchard about her Fat Liberation journey and what she hopes to see for local organizing in Connecticut! After the event, @fatbabesCT is organizing a local lunch so be sure to check their page for more info!
See you there!
Please come prepared to mask! (KN94 masks will be provided.)
New Haven Free Community Library is ADA accessible, including an entrance ramp near the Ives Community Program Room where we are meeting. The room features armless chairsand additional chair options can be brought in if needed. Please reach out to us at naafa.org/contact if you need any accessibility accommodations no later than Friday 10/3!
You can find parking and bus info here.
GUEST BIOS:
[Accessibility Description (provided by guest: A headshot of Megan Pitchard, a fat white woman with pale skin and dark brown hair, pulled partly up. She is wearing a destructed tie dye blue and pink short sleeve top.]
Megan Pitchard, LMSW (she/her), is a queer, fat social worker and the founder of Fat Babes Connecticut. A budding fat liberationist, she felt called to build a community where she and other fat folks can divest from diet culture. Megan’s personal eating disorder struggle shapes her clinical work with clients - she uses a relational, trauma-informed approach to support people of all marginalized identities who have been hurt by systemic oppression. Megan looks forward to her continued growth in supporting and connecting with others in the journey towards fat liberation.
Follow on Instagram @fatbabesct and Facebook as Fat Babes Connecticut.
[Accessibility Description: Headshot of Tigress Osborn]
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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