stout outs!
This section is devoted to resources and activist information for the fat and (out) queer. Please check back, as our network of resources grows. Suggest other opportunities for progressive, queer, and fat activism; we'd love to help spread the word!
activism
read the NOLOSE manifesta!
International No Diet Day
Phat Camp! Youth activist retreat
Check out Largesse's list of Size-Postive Organizations
and get involved!
New Providence Women's Center needs your clothes
events
(an archive of our former events will be coming soon!)links
bitchin fat/queer sites:
belle-noir.com - e-zine for BBWs of color
anybody.org
big fat blog
charlottecooper.net
The Chubsters
FaT GiRL - archive site for the now-defunct zine
Fat?So!
FemmeNoir - web portal for lesbians of color
International No Diet Day Resources
Largesse - the network for size esteem
Plus Size Yellow Pages
redpolka.org
Size Queen - the zine!
StacyBias.net
technodyke
Transgender People of Size - LiveJournal Community
Women in the Life - lesbians of color online community
arts:
Ama Menec - fat-positive sculpture, UK
AmandaPiasecki.com - fat activist, performance artist, and musician
The Beauty Curve -
size-positive photography/artwork
Big Burlesque - the Original Fat Bottom Revue
Big Moves - Bi-coastal fat dance company extraordinaire
Creamy Goodness - the name says it all!
Fat Fuck - the play
Fat Girl Speaks
Goddess Songs
HanneBlank.com
Patricia Schwarz
Queer Black CinemaT
SusanStinson.net
Tampa Bay's Fat Female Film Fest
Trade Queer Things
books:
Big Big Love, Hanne Blank
Big Fat Love- an XXL calendar (2005). 16 months of treating our
bodies right
Bodies
Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression
Cherry, Charlotte Cooper
The Fat Girl's Guide to Life, Wendy Shanker
Fat and Proud: The
Politics of Size,
Charlotte Cooper
Fat Girl Dances With Rock, Susan Stinson
Large & Lovely books
Plush Cats Pinup Calendar
Strange History of Suzanne LaFleshe and Other Stories of Women and Fatness, ed. Susan Koppelman
A Taste For Blood, Diana Lee
Tipping
the Scales of Justice: Fighting Weight-Based Discrimination, Sondra Solovay
Unruly Appetites, Hanne Blank
Venus of Chalk, Susan Stinson
Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica, Hanne
Blank
health:
fat-friendly health professionals list
weight loss may be harmful to your health [article]
USDA info on supplements
organizations:
Council on Size and Weight Discrimination
The Audre Lord Project Inc.
hugs international - network of anti-dieting
nutritionists
International Size Acceptance Assoc.
naafa
QueerNet.org
Sylvia Rivera Law Project
misc:
Beyond Bias - consultation, legal services, and weight-related diversity
training
bigandtallfurniture.com - the name says it all!
butch-femme.com - fat-positive online community for dykely/trans dating
Extra Hip - "the zine for the *real* teen scene"
Large in Charge [newsletter]
MaxAirborne.com - gorgeous, fat/queer-positive mosaic
plusstuff.com - fat-positive advice, resources, and catalogue
Toys in Babeland - fat-positive sex toys, equipment, resources
womyn's ware - fat-positive Canadian site for sex toys
clothing:
alight.com
Beauty Plus Power
Big Boxers of Brooklyn / Size Queen - custom clothing up to 9X
Big on Batik
DatGurl - Funky Threads
for Thick Chicks
Diesel Femme Wear - up to 8X
Fat Gurrl Ink - a bevy of fat-positive and genderqueer t-shirts (up to 10X!), bags, greeting cards and more
fatshionista! - LiveJournal community
jodi's
list of fetishwear sources
International "large size ladies" clothing links
No Sweat - Union-Made/Sweatshop-Free, with sizes up to 4x
PlusSize.com
Plus Stop
Re/Dress NYC
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