This July, we confront the weight of a system that punishes bodies for daring to take up space. In a world obsessed with control, thinness, and conformity, this edition is a rebellion—a bold reclaiming of fatness as power, presence, and possibility.

In honour of Disability Pride Month and in defiance of fatphobia, we spotlight the visionaries rewriting the rules: fat activists, disabled designers, queer care workers, and unapologetic storytellers whose bodies have always carried more than just stigma—they carry survival, legacy, and deep, collective knowing.

From the doctors who refused to weigh us to the data that erased us, this issue dives into the intersections of body politics, access, race, and resistance. It honours the joyful, the nuanced, the grieving, and the loud. The folks who build community where systems fail. The ones who stay soft in a world that’s hard on difference.

Join us as we unlearn shame and reimagine dignity. Because fat liberation isn’t a side note—it’s a frontline. And this issue? It’s a declaration: we will not be shrunk.