Blessed are the Fat

My inspirations for doing fat liberation theology come from a range of people from authors to podcasters to my friends. On this list are folks doing work in secular fat liberation and folks doing sacred liberation work. There aren’t a lot of us doing both (Rev. Dr. Kidd is the exception), but I hope more will join us. This is not a full list but a few highlights.

Rev. Dr. Anastasia Kidd (she/her)

• Author of Fat Church: Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation
• Director of Contextual Education at the Boston University School of Theology
• UCC minister

Aubrey Gordon (she/her)

• Author of What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk about Fat & You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths about Fat People
• Co-host of Maintenance Phase podcast

Rev. Dr. Wil Gafney (she/her)

• Author of A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church, Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to Women of the Torah and of the Throne, and Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel (plus many articles & editor of other books)
• The Right Rev. Sam B. Hulsey Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas
• Episcopal priest & womanist biblical scholar

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (she/her)

• Author of On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World; Nurture The Wow; Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion, and editor of many projects
• Scholar in Residence at the National Council of Jewish Women
• She has an amazing spirituality & justice newsletter Life is a Sacred Text