Im working hard trying to wind up my PhD. I spend most days grimacing at my computer for hours on end. There arent many laughs round here at the moment. A little bit of sweetness came my way last nig...
Ryerson University in Toronto are hosting me at the end of June and have organised an event around a public lecture that Im going to give, called The Queerness of Fat Activism.Details are being final...
Im really delighted to have been interviewed by the Games Monitor about fat and the Olympics, including some things about the Fattylympics. Under the radar: Fat activism and the London 2012 Olympics:...
Kay Hyatt and I are presenting a little something at Tate Modern on Friday, as part of Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logues Axe Grinding Workshop, part of the work they do as the Feminist Art Gallery ...
I got back from the Body & Peace workshop in Berlin a couple of days ago. This was a week long residential event, supported by European funding, with just under 20 participants from a handful of ...
We went to Berlin and all we got were these fantastic Fattylympics headbands. Yours for free on the day.
Me, 1978 or so, looking into the future.Its been a little scrappy around here of late and Im sorry about that. Im preoccupied with finishing my thesis, organising the Fattylympics, and keeping going ...
Pivo has made some gorgeous images that can be printed, coloured-in, and pasted up as street art. Check em out, more will be uploaded soon.
Its 83 days to go until the Fattylympics and this is where were at (on time and on budget, motherlovers...)
The Fattylympics needs a large amount of medals to give out on the day. Would you like to make some for this historic and unique event? Please say yes. Here are the details:Make Fattylympics Medals!
Im going to be taking part in a panel discussion at the National Portrait Gallery in London about fat representation. Come and join in!In Conversation: In Praise of the Voluptuous10 May 201219:00-20:...
The Weigh In is a new fat activist social space in London. Taking place at the Pogo Café every third Thursday of the month, its organiser Kay Hyatt hopes that itll be a hang-out kind of affair, where...
My fat activist cake topperBurger Queen is over for another year. It has been a totally overwhelming experience that will take me a long time to process, but here are some scraps for the meantime.I t...
Im noticing a wave of TV programmes and articles about the scientific truth of why people are fat, and what should be done about it. I know this is a pretty constant part of the media in the UK, but ...
Were booking Fattylympics stalls. Free for non-commercial use, cheap for everyone else!
Heather McCormack has just published an article on Library Journal Reviews listing some fat activist zines, including A Queer and Trans Fat Activist Timeline. Alright!Fat Activism and Body Positivity...
A group of people of colour (POC) in the US affiliated with NOLOSE released a statement this week demanding that white people in fat activism take responsibility to make the movement more inclusive a...
Somewhat off-topic, I made a film that has made the official selection for the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (LLGFF) and is going to be screened as part of a programme of experimental short fi...
Burger Queen photo by Holly Revellhttps://www.facebook.com /hollyrevellartistI think of Burger Queen as a platform for queered fat performance framed as a beauty pageant that is currently taking place...
Issue 2.1 of Somatechnics has just been published, a special issue on fat bodily being edited by Samantha Murray. It looks really good. Im in it too.Somatechnics home page at Edinburgh University Pre...
Following their fat activism special, Una Buena Barba, the super-cool queer feminist online mag from Spain, asked me to write something for them, so I did. Homosexual Death Drive: Diario de una Bolle...
Arcadia, which owns Evans, has been named as a participant in the UK governments Workfare programme. Workfare is a generic term for programmes which force people to work for benefits. The fantasy is ...
I have a touch of osteo-arthritis (OA) in my right knee. Sometimes I get a small amount of pain. I understand OA as a degenerative condition and that I will likely become increasingly disabled as tim...
I am co-organising the Fattylympics this summer. We are looking for people to propose and create participatory events. Fancy it? Pass it on!Propose a Fattylympics Event!
A while back my boyfriend, Simon Murphy, brought home a comic for us to look at. I cant remember who did it or what it was about, possibly it was something by Art Spiegelman. But I do remember a litt...
You can download and read a selection of articles (including mine) from Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society for FREE until 30 June. Get in there!http://www.tandfonlin...
Im in a band and, even though this is a little self-referential, I want to write about it, so I will.My band is called Homosexual Death Drive and it consists of me, my girlfriend Kay Hyatt, and a cou...
My friend Substantia Jones recently shared a link to an interview with Cleo Berry in the New York Times: Imagine His Shock. His Leg Had Vanished. Berry is an actor who posed for some pictures a while...
Calls for papers have just been announced for two Fat Studies gatherings that are taking place this year.Fat Studies: Reflective IntersectionsMassey University, Wellington, New Zealand12-13 July 2012...
Meridith Lawrence and Judith SteinLast year I had the great good fortune to spend a bit of time with Judith Stein and Meridith Lawrence at their beautiful home in Massachusetts. Stein and Lawrence ar...
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