"A turning point for me was when I wrote about a fat character and the story was not at all about her size," Renée Watson says. “There is no mention of her size in the book but in my mind ...

LGBTQ+, fat and disabled characters combined only make up a total 10% of the 100 highest-grossing U.S. films, according to a new study shared Tuesday by the Geena Davis Institute.

Here’s the thing: Aren’t people also constantly complaining that movie characters are not fat enough? In fact, just recently, an advocacy group called ProjectKnow declared that even cartoon ...