Fat Girl Best Friend: Claiming Space with Sarah Grant

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Sarah Grant joins us for this year’s Book Fringe to talk all about her honest and important debut book Fat Girl Best Friend: Claiming Our Space: Plus Size Women in Film & Television.

Fat Girl Best Friend comes at a timely moment. Using her experiences as a plus size, queer, working-class creative working in film and television, Sarah interweaves personal anecdotes with socio-political analysis on our most loved media to explore why fat characters are rarely at the forefront of storytelling. No stone is left unturned as Fat Girl Best Friend explores why sexism, ageism, classism, racism, and ableism all have a part to play in the creation of sidekick plus size characters - and why female friendship may provide the solution.

Sarah is joining Lighthouse as part of this year’s Book Fringe: ALT Edition in partnership with two other Edinburgh indie bookshops – Argonaut and Typewronger

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Our Speaker:

Sarah Grant is a writer, poet, filmmaker and actor based in Glasgow. She is a BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award Nominee, a Sky Academy Arts Scholar and on the Young Women's Movement 30-Under-30 list of influential women in Scotland.She has just published her first book, Fat Girl Best Friend: ‘Claiming Our Space’: Plus Size Women in Film & Television,The book is a pop culture voyage that celebrates, interrogates and sticks up for plus size women in film and television, while championing female friendship.