Though bigotry against fat people batters against Addie’s self-confidence (from the gross boys who neg her to her mother’s well-meaning but abusive obsession with diets), her determination to love herself and claim her fatness are empowering. But in their sex-negative, misogynist high school, this fundraiser’s going to have to be secret. She wins a spot in a competitive program for aspiring dancers in Milan, with a director who’s “dramatically, unapologetically fat, and perfect.” But Addie doesn’t win the program’s scholarship, and how is she going to get $6,000? Her BFFs (a Black lesbian Instagram influencer a queer Korean American boy who embraces gender as a spectrum and a joyful White girl) convince Addie to let them help raise the money by dancing. In the performing arts track at the Michigan boarding school where she’s one of the few scholarship kids, Addie’s flourished far from her thinness-obsessed mother in Florida. A White high school dancer, unable to afford a prestigious summer opportunity taught by an amazing, fat dance director, discovers burlesque.Įighteen-year-old Addie loves her friends and lives for dance.
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