Join us for the first night of the Body Love Revolutionaries Telesummit! Click here to register.
I can’t wait to see you there!
| Thursday, February 23rd at 3PM EST/2PM CST/1PM MST/Noon PST/9AM HAST/7PM London/6 AM Sydney (note time change) |
FAT/QUEER INTERSECTIONS with Bevin Branlandingham, Charlotte Cooper, & Jessica Luxery
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 Bevin Branlandingham
 Charlotte Cooper
 Jessica Luxery
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Bevin Branlandingham is “an ultra-rad warrior for self-acceptance.” [Autostraddle.com] She is the Host and Producer of FemmeCast: The Queer Fat Femme Podcast Guide to Life and author of the popular blog QueerFatFemme.com. She is an emcee, writer, drag, burlesque and comedy performer and “Plus Size Party Girl” according to Time Out New York. She hosts and produces the monthly performance and dance party Rebel Cupcake and quarterly performance art salon Cupcake Cabaret. She was a Shop Girl at the iconic fashion destination Re/Dress NYC for the entire three years it was open. She has most recently served as Co-Head Madam of Femme Family, the New York Chapter of the Femme Mafia, on the steering committee for the Fat and Queer conference and the media committee for the Femme Conference. In 2008 Bevin received a Commendation from the Mayor of Jersey City for her work with the LGBT community. She was a 2011 top entrepreneur in GO Magazine. Her writing has been published in numerous periodicals, including most recently Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femmeand she has performed throughout North America. Her mission is to make the world a safe place for people to love themselves, regardless of their differences. Her website (including blog, calendar of events and workshops) is found at QueerFatFemme.Com.
Charlotte Cooper is based in London and have been involved with fat activism for the last twenty years or so in various countries. Highlights include being on the cover of FaT GiRL, presenting her films at festivals around the world, keynoting NOLOSE and inaugural Fat Studies events in the UK and Australia, hiring a troupe of lady Morris Dancers to perform at a queer-fat harvest festival, and surviving and thriving where she was not expected to. Her background is in punk, DIY and zine culture, and gutter journalism. She is the sole author of two books: Fat and Proud: The Politics of Size, which draws on disability theory and the disability rights movement to make sense of fat activism; and a lurid, award-winning novel, Cherry. She is widely published. Charlotte is currently a Government of Ireland PhD scholar at the University of Limerick, courtesy of the Irish Social Sciences Platform. Her research is primarily about fat activism and draws on queer theory, radical lesbian feminism, postmodernism and postcolonial stuff. She blogs about fat at www.obesitytimebomb.blogspot.com and maintain a partial archive of my work at www.charlottecooper.net.
Jessica Luxery is a high-femme fatty who bleeds glitter and kittens in lace bonnets. She was born on a bed of frosting, with a can of hairspray and a jug of blush, to a young (but legal!) Elizabeth Taylor and your Lord and Savior: Freddy Mercury. Her blouses are too low, her hair too high, but her heart is in the just right place. Her tumblr (tangledupinlace.tumblr.com) and twitter (twitter.com/tangledupinlace) provide endless entertainment, advice, and support for anyone on a journey to self acceptance. |
Register for the Telesummit at www.bodylovrevolution.com.
