While discrimination related to race and gender have long spawned art, protests, and social-justice crusades, less mainstream thought has been dedicated to the struggles of fat people. And if you recoiled at this flippant use of “fat”, that’s the point: we’ve been socialized to see the F-word as inherently bad—as gross, villainous, and undesirable—and Fattitude has the receipts to prove it.

Through interviews with various body activists, authors, and public figures, filmmakers Lindsey Averill and Viridiana Lieberman strive to reclaim the term while presenting a contemporary, no-holds-barred breakdown of why no one—regardless of weight—should be ashamed of his or her body. As one interviewee puts it, “You can be a fat person and be fucking phenomenal.”