[Nolose-announce] Funding for Fat Events Across the Land!

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NOLOSE Announces Funding for Fat Events Across the Land!

NOLOSE is thrilled to announce the recipients of the Small Projects Across
the Land grants which support events promoting fat visibility, fat culture
and fat fabulousness.  We were overwhelmed by the response to our call for
proposals and choosing only five amongst the applicants was challenging. 
Below is a brief description of each the funded projects that were awarded
funding. 



$600 awarded to Fat Kid Flea Market, a fatshion flea market and performance
with recycled and locally designed clothes in sizes 14+ and fat positive
performances in Austin, Texas.



$1,000 awarded to The Fat of the Land: A Queer Chub Harvest Festival, a
London UK based Harvest Festival incorporating fat positive performance and
information with slow food movement, traditional harvest time rituals, food
and a general celebration of abundance.

$700 awarded to a one day conference in New York,  NY entitled Fat and Queer
and focused on Social, Political, Health, Art, Media, Financial and Academic
interests (just to name a few) of self identified Fat, Queer folks and their
allies.

$700 awarded to a one day conference in Boston, MA called Fat and Queer
Movement: Past, Present, Future, that will focus on the history and
complexity of fat and queer movements.

$1,000 awarded to Flabulous!, an evening of drag, cabaret, and burlesque
featuring a variety of queer performers of size and their allies in San
Francisco, CA.  The show will feature pieces that celebrate queer bodies in
all of their sizes as well as pieces that directly address body fascism and
the lived experiences of people of size.

Check the NOLOSE website (www.nolose.org <http://www.nolose.org/> /spal)
soon for more information and further details.



NOLOSE* is a volunteer <http://www.nolose.org/about/volunteer.php> -run
organization dedicated to ending the oppression of fat people and creating
vibrant fat queer culture.  In the activist and empowerment work that we do,
we envision a world:
 
* that is accessible to fat people and reflective of us.
*  that is without fat discrimination, hatred or prejudice.
* where fat people are empowered to create positive change in ourselves and
in our communities.
* where beauty, morality, health, humor and fashion are divorced from size
and shape and all bodies are celebrated.
* where fighting fat phobia is seen as integrally linked to other social
justice issues such as the women's movement, anti-racist and
anti-imperialist struggles of people of color at home and around the world,
queer and transgender movements, class struggle, disability rights movements
and more. 
*   where all people have a right to basic human rights as well as joy,
sensuality and self-determination.
*  and where the diet industry closes up shop as the world sees their
products for the oppressive and ineffective scams they are.




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