Tezarah Wilkins
Tezarah Wilkins is an Entrepreneur, Arts Administrator, and Multi-media Producer. She has worked with arts and cultural organizations throughout the Philadelphia area, including completing an Artist Engagement Fellowship for the Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation, serving on the Advisory Board and Grant Planning Committee for Small But Mighty Arts Grant, and her work as a documentary and web-series Producer at Love Now Media.
Most recently, Tezarah is the Producer, Creator & Host of the internationally award-winning podcast Who Taught You How To Drive?! The show was chosen to be in the first cohort of the PRX and Google Podcasts creator program and has gone on to receive a Resolution from the City of Philadelphia and a nomination for Best Comedy Podcast, from the Black Podcast Awards 2020.
Tezarah is extremely excited to shoot her first self-produced documentary exploring a topic of personal significance; the still very oppressive concept of fat phobia, while also creating much needed visibility and positive imagery of women who identify as Fat and Black.
Awarded Grants
2020
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
Tezarah’s Fat Femme will be a 20 minute short documentary aimed at centering the voices and experiences of BIPOC who identify as "fat" women – and yearn for visibility, body diversity in media, and a celebration of the bodies they live in day in and day out.
