Radical, compelling and sometimes heartbreaking, multi-award winning memoirist Kris Kneen asks: Why do we make it so difficult for fat people to live in their bodies in our society? Join Kris in conversation with Maeve Marsden as they talk about how Kris learned to look unblinkingly at their recalcitrant body, ultimately finding the courage to carry it to freedom.
Kris Kneen is the award-winning author of memoir—Affection and The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen—and fiction: An Uncertain Grace, Steeplechase, Triptych, The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine, Wintering, as well as the Thomas Shapcott Award-winning poetry collection Eating My Grandmother. They have written and directed broadcast documentaries for SBS and ABC Television. Their latest memoir is Fat Girl Dancing.
Maeve Marsden is a writer and theatremaker, having written, directed and performed in a number of critically acclaimed theatre productions. Maeve curates the national storytelling project Queerstories, and her writing has appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian Australia, Junkee and Archer magazine.
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