Notes From The Fatosphere

A classic spread from the second Pretty Big catalogue 198?/199? That's Audrey with the trombone I've written here that 19...

In recent weeks Virgie Tovar reminded me of Let It All Hang Out, a fat dyke gathering which took place in San Francisco in 1989, 1990 and 1...

Two collections of poetry stand out for me as classic fat feminist texts of the 1980s. These are The Fat Black Woman's Poems by Grace N...

During the research period for my book I was lucky to spend time with the author Susan Stinson, who showed me some of her scrapbooks. As I ...

There are posts elsewhere on this blog that feature Judith Stein and Meridith Lawrence, key figures in the development of fat feminist activ...

Long-standing readers of this blog will know that I love to dance and that in recent years I have been finding my feet as a dancer. My work...

Elana Dykewomon's fat feminism is some of my favourite fat activism of the early movement. It is rooted in her life as a poet, writer a...