CALL OUT FOR FAT FEMMES TRIBUTE NIGHT

I AM DOING A TRIBUTE TO FAT FEMMES TO COINCIDE WITH NICKY CLICK COMING TO PERFORM AT GRANNY BOOTS ON WED OCT 28TH.
Granny Boots is the free, wednesday weekly radical queer performance night at the gladstone that I (chelsey lichtawoman) host every week.

THIS IS A CALL OUT FOR ALL THE FAT FEMMES OUT THERE-
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2010 PCA/ACA Conference
Fat Studies Area
Call for Papers

Fat Studies is becoming an interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary field of study that confronts and critiques cultural constraints against notions of “fatness” and “the fat body”; explores fat bodies as they live in, are shaped by, and remake the world; and creates paradigms for the ( Read more... )

i'm sure you all know. but 3 fantastic fat/queer designers are coming into town, not only are they amazing designers, they're probably also your friends! i hope that you'll be joining the Re/Dress gang in welcoming Bertha, Sossity + Rachel to our first Indie Designer Trunk Show on Sat Sept 12th.
Please spread the word far and wide!!!


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Weighty Propositions:
Films about bodies, fatness, and food
Saturday September 12, 7pm
$5
Sedgwick Theater, 7137 Germantown Av, Philadelphia PA
YES! There is air-conditioning at the theater.

More information here:

http://flickeringfilms.com/

it's the keynote address from the NAAFA conference that just occurred and was given by ally Linda Bacon, PhD in nutrition and big leader in the Health at Any Size movement.  she discusses fat oppression and thin privilege and it is just so well laid out.

please read and pass it on/repost!

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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 ( Read more... )

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Hey everyone! We're soliciting Keynote Speaker suggestions. We are a small tiny conference- so the person should be totally awesome, but willing to do it for the cheap! Any ideas? Marisa