Step up and speak out for fat people


Photos By YAP CHEE HONG

Three of My Fat Squad's co-founders (from left) Farizah Ahmad, Ratna Manokaran and Dorian Wilde. The fourth co-founder Jaskirath Sohanpal (not in picture) is currently in England doing her Masters.

Fat people often stand alone in advocating for themselves and demanding that they have the right to a seat at the table or access to the most basic things in their everyday life.

And that was one of the reasons that six friends decided to come together and start My Fat Squad, a fat positive and fat liberation group, in 2019.

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