Fattylympics latest
Here's the latest Fattylympics news, straight from the horse's mouth:We have torches plural.Isha will be representing, and so will The Fat Geography Massive.Please come.YEAH!
View ArticleWhy do the same headless fatties keep popping up?
Very briefly, I've noticed how the same headless fatties turn up again and again in fat panic news stories. I see these two pictures all the time: golddigga and big-arse-small-chair. Today golddigga...
View ArticleReflecting on the queerness of fat activism in Toronto
Jen took this picture of me trying tolook suitably authoritativein my light-up epidemic tiaraI am on the road and struggling to find mental space to gather my thoughts at the moment, but I don't want...
View ArticleThis is what the Fattylympics was like
Pic by Matthew CunninghamI have uploaded a long post on the Fattylympics blog that explains what we did. It's rich and complicated! Essential reading for fat activists, but then I would say that. There...
View ArticleI got fat-papped* for the Daily Mail
Mike Lawn's picture of usI co-produced an event at the weekend called The Fattylympics. I've given an account of what this work entailed elsewhere.Unfortunately, despite our best efforts to keep them...
View ArticleI sincerely hope research justice will destroy the market for Bari-Suits
When I first started encountering fat activism in the US in the early 90s, accessible medical equipment was a big issue. People couldn't get hospital gowns or blood pressure cuffs that fitted. When...
View ArticleBeing called disgusting, ugly, and unhealthy did not destroy me
A person made a mean and thoughtless comment about one of Substantia's Adipositivity portraits of me recently, I saw it just now. This is not front page news, I get trolled fairly often and I don't...
View ArticleResearch project: did you go to the Fattylympics?
The Fat Geography Massive (aka Bethan and Rachel) were the people organising the Gym Knicker Blinging stall. They are also researchers who do work on fat activism, and are doing some research on the...
View ArticleCarrying my father's weight
My father died suddenly last week. He had been ill for some time, but it was still a surprise ending to his life, though not a painful or terrible death, as far as I know. I have been in the shock part...
View ArticleThe Queerness of Fat Activism Show and Tell in London
I'm going to do a little show and tell of the presentation I gave in Toronto in June. This will be a sit-round-the-table affair, rather than me standing at a lectern in front of a packed room. There...
View ArticleFat, diversity, inclusion and underwear
I just read Cora Harrington's post, Diversity Is More Than a Bra Size: What It’s Like to Be a Woman of Color in the Lingerie Industry and I thought it was really great.This is where I start in relation...
View ArticleI entered the 2012 World Gurning Championships
This post isn't really about fat, but it is about beauty and ugliness. I tend to avoid writing about overlapping subjects that I think are often taken as proxies for fat, particularly within feminist...
View ArticleFatphobia, the outdoors, and belonging
This is where we were walkingA few weeks ago I went for a walk in the Cumbrian countryside with my girlfriend. We were aiming for a place where you can swim when it's warm, a series of waterfalls and...
View ArticleFat People Bash Back
I went to a talk last week by a guy who edited an anthology about Bash Back and was on tour to promote his work. Bash Back is or was a movement based in the US, instigated by anti-assimilationist...
View ArticleFat Feminist Archive: Stein and Freespirit
I've been thinking about pictures and archives a lot lately.After Dad died in August, I became the custodian of an archive of family photographs. I've been interested in feminist theory of family...
View ArticleHot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love & Fashion
From the old to the new. The doorbell rang as I was writing that last post with a delivery of my copies of Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love & Fashion, edited by Virgie Tovar.Well,...
View ArticleConstructing the fat kid in family photographs
I've been going through some of the family photographs that I inherited after my dad died a couple of months ago. One of the things that has caught my eye has been how family photographs constructed me...
View ArticleIt's Dr Charlotte, Dr Fat from now on
Just over four years ago, I got picked to be the recipient of one of a handful of fully funded PhDs at the University of Limerick, courtesy of the Irish Social Sciences Platform. The money that paid...
View ArticleQueer zine talk with added fat, London, Saturday
I'm giving a little show and tell talk about making and writing for zines, including FaT GiRL and other queer fat activist zines. It's in London on Saturday, part of the inaugural Queer Zine Fest. I...
View ArticleMy fat activism and my zines
The inaugural Queer Zine Fest London was held on Saturday and it was really fantastic. Loads of people came, there was a great diversity of zine-making present, and Erica Smith, the first person to...
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