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We think big is hot. (We're like Mrs. Claus that way.) Which is why we like this documentary to help make fat acceptance a reality.

Size activist Kira Nerusskaya, who has testified in front of the Massachusetts state Senate on the issues of weight discrimination in the workplace, is making a film of stories of real women and their curves from around the world.

"Fat Girls Float" is a "film about fat women in a thin-centric world." In this powerful clip released to help raise money for the project, Velvet, a Parisian, pleads for a change in the idea that fat women are "something to be laughed at, as gluttons, as lazy people, as all we do is stuff our face."

Adds Nerusskaya, "We are so brainwashed within this culture of having the stigma of fat being so negative and bad." The independent filmmaker, who's not ashamed of her 300 lbs., is offering a look not just at the lives of BBWs but the men who love them, the stigmas and the fat-acceptance community.

If you want, you can help a sister out with some funding. She's staying afloat thanks to the donations that will get her movie made. Check out the trailer here.