My name is Amanda Levitt and I write this blog. In September of 2010 I founded Love Your Body Detroit a grassroots non-profit activism organization dedicated to bringing awareness of fat phobia and weight bias to the Metro Detroit area. This was the beginning of my journey into Fat Rights as an activist and looking at it from a more traditional political perspective. I found fat rights at the age of 18, began blogging at 20 and now at 26 I am moving further into the movement to create positive change with LYBD’s message.

When I am not writing or talking about fat politics, I am crafting to raise money for LYBD (LYBDetroit.etsy.com) and myself (fworiginals.etsy.com) while hanging out with my two cats, Shadow and Olive Fettuccini the Fluffy Avenger. (Yes he is a supercat!) I am currently attending a Detroit University working towards degrees in Women’s Studies and Sociology, and hopes to continue on working toward a Ph.D where she wants to teach fat studies.

As of January 2012 this blog has been renamed from Communications of a Fat Waitress to Fat Body Politics for a few reasons. The simplest is that I am no longer a waitress, and the larger picture is that this blog is more about the politics of living in a fat body or being a fat person that it has ever been about myself. I want to expand past my own experience.

-Amanda-