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| Thursday, June 25th, 2009 | 3:37 pm
[geeksdoitbetter]
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philly fat flea
When: Sunday, June 28th from 1 to 4 Where: A-Space, 4722 Baltimore Avenue (West Philly) What: Bring your new and gently used clothes in sizes xl-6x to swap. Accessories welcome, too! How much: $5 donation (or more if you can) gets you in to swap. All proceeds benefit NOLOSE (www.nolose.org) wee hoo! we're having our very own fat flea market this sun there's plenty to choose from: casual to business to steppin' out stop by and join the luv Current Mood: fat and happy | 11:56 am
[fattest]
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SF Bay area fat clothing needed
Big Moves Bay Area wants your used clothes! Big Moves Bay Area is hosting its first ever used clothing sale August 9th in Oakland, CA and we're asking for donations of gently used clothing in all sizes of large. Here's your chance to get rid of your cast offs, get a tax deduction and boost your fat karma by supporting the nation's only service organization dedicated to promoting size diversity in dance. If you've got clothing or want more information, contact either matilda@bigmoves.org or cindy@bigmoves.org. We will even pick up your clothes if you'd like. Yours in Flabulousness, Big Moves Bay Area http://www.bigmoves.org | | Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 | 7:30 am
[drinkasyoupour]
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NOLOSE 2010 - Tell us what you think!
Hello NOLOSE-ers! The NOLOSE board has been busy planning the next conference, slated for Spring 2010, on the West Coast of the US, likely in the Bay Area. As we plan, we want to solicit the input of our community and get your opinions on different factors we have been considering in our planning process. We have created a short anonymous survey, laying out different options we are considering for venues, and also gathering input on individual priorities around certain factors. Please let us know what is important to you by completing the short survey here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=wqIItV_2b99cQgqt8W3v4wvA_3d_3dThanks very much! Fat Love, Kim and the NOLOSE Board PS. Become our fan on Facebook! | | Saturday, June 13th, 2009 | 10:29 am
[femmegrrlprof]
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Fat and Queer 2009 NYC
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 | | Friday, June 12th, 2009 | 3:38 pm
[pinkprincesszoe]
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| | Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 | 12:23 pm
[drinkasyoupour]
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NOLOSE update from the Board!
Dear NOLOSE Community: Warm late-spring greetings to everyone! We now have a big, blossoming NOLOSE Board of eleven members and wanted to take this chance to check-in, make some announcements, and share some input and ideas. A few announcements: - We’re thrilled to announce that Robin Fradkin will be working as the NOLOSE Operations Manager and part of her role will be to help streamline our communications and help outline needed structures.
- Geleni Fontaine will be serving as our new Volunteer Coordinator, working on bringing community energy into different projects.
- Works in progress include a survey about NOLOSE and the conference that we hope will continue the great flow of input. We’ll let you know when to look for it. We value your feedback!
- The Board has a working list of several people both from the board itself and the larger community interested in working on an Arts and Entertainment Committee for the next conference. Let us know if you’re interested in joining!
- The NOLOSE blog is coming soon, with regularly updated information about Board, conference, and regional activities.
- The next NOLOSE conference is scheduled for Spring 2010 and the Conference Location Selection Committee is hard at work on the venue. They’re already starting to vet ideas and are taking all feedback into consideration. Stay tuned!
( Feedback and Considerations )With gratitude and support, The Board of Directors of NOLOSE PS. Find this letter and more information about NOLOSE online at: Website: http://www.nolose.orgFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/nolose#/group.php?gid=4230769590Livejournal: http://community.livejournal.com/nolose/Join our nolose announce email list, http://nolose.org/mailman/listinfo/nolose-announce_nolose.org | | Monday, June 1st, 2009 | 12:38 pm
[evilgenius_nnl]
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Flickering Light Film Series Call for Submissions: Weighty Proposition
Flickering Light Film Series
Call for Submissions
Weighty Proposition: Films about Fatness, Bodies and Food Filmmakers and Video Artists are invited to submit films of any length to be screened as part of “Weighty Proposition: Films about Fatness, Bodies and Food.” What is it about a fat body that is scary, beautiful, bold, invisible, revolutionary, obscene? Why do our bodies become sites for debate, confusion, angst and exaltation? How do we come to our individual and cultural understanding of that universal question: Do you eat to live, or live to eat? We are looking for films that document fat positive movement building, that challenge our conceptions of fatness, that create new paradigms for beauty, that consider relationships between size, race, class and gender, that explore food and consumption, and that (most of all) express something fresh and new about fatness, bodies, and food. Films will be juried by the film series coordinator, Sara Zia Ebrahimi, and filmmaker Naima Lowe. Films not selected for the screening may be considered for future screenings throughout the year. Go Here http://flickeringfilms.com/submission/ for more information | | Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 | 11:08 pm
[femmegrrlprof]
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Fat and Queer Conference Planning
Conference Planning for Fat and Queer 2009 will start at 7:15pm at ReDress NYC on Thursday May 28th, 2009. If you would like to join the planning team, please post a comment here. | | Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 | 4:27 pm
[bias_cut]
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Funding for Fat Activist Projects via NOLOSE's SPAL Grants!
Hey, guess what? NOLOSE is offering seed money of up to $1,000 to support projects that expand the reach of fat queer activism. 2007's SPAL projects included an inspired Zine-making party in London, a fabulous Roller Skating party in Philadelphia, and the very successful Fat & Queer mini-conference in New York. We loved supporting those projects because they were creative, fun, informative, and community-based. Although we are looking for programming to strengthen the fat LGBTQ community at the local level, we will also consider programming that networks with other allied organizations. Want to co-sponsor something with bears? Interested in planning a plus-sized clothing swap with your local LGBTQ or NAAFA chapter? Send us a proposal! We will prioritize projects that: - Support NOLOSE's mission:
- Create visibility for fat queers, fat queer issues, and fat queer activism.
- Explore intersections between all of our different identities in the world.
- Provide information, resources, access, and/or voice to groups that are marginalized within fat activist communities.
- Provide information, resources, access, and/or voice to under-resourced regions with less visible fat activist communities.
- Are challenging, weird, boisterous, empowering, and FUN.
Our hope is that funded projects will be able to return the seed money back to NOLOSE (or even make a profit), but we understand that not all projects will or should be money-earning ventures. Ability to put money back in the pot for other projects will be one factor (of many) in our funding/grantmaking decisions. In general, the larger the funding request, the more important the ability to repay the seed money will be. Timeline>> All proposals are due by June 1, 2009.>> Notifications will go out July 1, 2009. Funding/agreements will go out soon after. Sound good? We hope you apply! If you have additional questions, or need to submit a proposal through other means/media, feel free to email us at SPAL@nolose.com. Find out more and access the SPAL application for funding here. | | Thursday, April 30th, 2009 | 3:44 pm
[pinkprincesszoe]
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| | Monday, April 27th, 2009 | 12:49 pm
[enigmamystery] |
Big Moves Boston event in Philadelphia
Calling all Philly fatties! Big Moves Boston (and NOLOSE attendees Marina and Nicole) need your help! Do you live in the Philadelphia area, or do you have friends who do? Do you support fat-positive dance, theatre, and education? Do you want to help out some fatties in need and do your karma a favor? Big Moves Boston is making a trip to Philadelphia with our new show, Fat Camp. We will be performing at the Rotunda the weekend of May 8th & 9th, hosting all-size dance workshops and a reading with Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby from their new book "Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere." But we can't do it alone! We need help from community members in the form of home stays for our lovely cast and crew. We are really good house guests and are low maintenance, looking for a couch or bed (or floor!) to crash on Friday May 8th and Saturday May 9th. We'll be bringing around 15 people with us, but can go as small as two to a home stay. If you or someone you know can help, please contact Company Manager Nicole Bourgoin at 617-686-6200 or stormy.friday@yahoo.com. More about the show below! Fat Camp is summer camp the way Big Moves would do it, full of dining-hall dancing, post-modern pillow fights, a full-service cold-cereal bar, shower-room burlesques, campfire sing-alongs, and of course, trust games. With lots of audience interaction, Fat Camp invites viewers to take their own body-acceptance journeys along with us, and learn to love the skin they're in! ------------------------ Big Moves Boston presents: Fat Camp in Philly A Summer-Camp-Themed Musical May 8 - 9 Evening Shows Friday and Saturday - doors at 7:30, show at 8 Saturday Matinee - doors at 1:30, show at 2 The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tickets: $10 in advance, $12 at door Advance tickets available at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/63241 Between shows on Saturday: Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby read from their new book, "Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere" 4 - 5 pm, free All Sizes Hip Hop Workshop, from 5 - 6 pm, $5 | | Friday, April 24th, 2009 | 10:53 pm
[mermeydele]
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Plus size model call: Portland Oregon
This call is for a show I will be curating in November 2009. Yay! Spread the word near and far! Thanks.
Plus size model call Portland Oregon. Kina Williams Photographer http://kinawilliams.com and Bertha Pearl of Size Queen Clothing http://www.sizequeenclothing.com are teaming up to bring you a big fat conceptual multi media show at the Q-Center Nov 2009. Would you like to come play with us?? We are looking for plus size models size XL to 6XL in Portland Oregon or immediately surrounding areas. Preferably women/female (self identified) and/or queer or gender bender identified. We want people who are joyful in their bodies and shameless in their expression of their curves and rolls. We want people who love being photographed. We want people who won’t hesitate to show off their bellies, butts, thighs , arms and hips... and have some fun with us, regardless of experience with this kind of thing.. Shooting dates will run throughout the summer in Portland Oregon, so if there is an extended period of time that you will be away from Portland please let us know those dates in your response. We will be working with professional and amateur makeup artists. If you have an MUA you already work with please introduce us. Bertha will be doing the styling. Kina will be executing the themes through set design, location and post production techniques in her photography. Each photo session will run approximately 2 hours with the entire process of makeup and styling taking up to 4 hours. Shooting dates will adjust if the weather isn’t right for the theme, but will be rescheduled for the next possible day. Currently we are putting together shoots for “steampunk” “cirque” and “southern belle”. The rest of the concepts have not been solidified at this time. We will be shooting anywhere between 6-10 themes. You must be able to sign a legally binding model release form in order to participate in this project. Can’t flex on that one. This is a barter based model call. What we have in return for your time/effort is 10 web res and 5 full res images from the session fully edited, deep discounts on prints from the show (it is also my goal to artfully frame them in recycled materials), a pair of boxers OR a pair of bloomers from Size Queen and a discount on any merchandise in the store including the outfit you modeled. If you are interested please respond by contacting kinawilliamsphotographer/ at/ gmail /dot/ com with MODEL CALL in the subject line. Please send a head shot and a full body shot (low res images ONLY) they do not have to be professional pictures, but we need to be able to see you. We will also need your standard measurements (bust,hip,waist height) and please introduce yourself…we’d love to meet you!! Please feel free to post widely…and thank you! Cheers!!
Kina Williams, Bertha Pearl | | Saturday, April 18th, 2009 | 9:47 am
[beccawrites]
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| | Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 | 5:42 pm
[evilgenius_nnl]
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Thanks to the organizers of the FAT GIRL FLEA Market - From The Board of NOLOSE
Dear Bevin, Marisa and Everyone Who Has Helped With the Fat Girl Flea Market this year, and in years past, I'm speaking here on behalf of the board, but I'll also speak from personal experience. I so utterly appreciate the hours and hours of hard work that have gone into the Fat Flea. It is so wonderful to create a time and space for people to be together, find clothes, offer their time and support fat queer empowerment. When I've been able to attend the flea, I have been able to buy things that I love, see people that I love, and feel good about supporting a cause that I love. The two times that I've gone to NOLOSE, I've needed and used financial assistance. These funds allowed me to attend in the midst of student loans and personal crisis, and I'm not ashamed to say how much I've appreciated that support. The first year that I went to NOLOSE, I literally broke down in tears when I saw someone wearing something that I had donated to the flea. Without you amazing organizers, I couldn't have had that amazing experience, and I thanks. With Love, Naima, and the Board of NOLOSE | | Monday, April 6th, 2009 | 10:27 am
[femmegrrlprof]
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Thank you!
IIt was amazing as it always is. There were great clothing finds and I love that the flea happens. I love that I'm part of making the flea happen. Most of all though, I'm thankful for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bounce_n_jiggle for coming up with the idea and making it happen for so many years. I'm thankful to queen_bbb for asking me to help her organize. I'm thankful to mitchellatticus and gazebo_tree for all of their help and support this weekend. I'm thankful to pinkprincesszoe, leatherfish, bias_cut, failsafeheart, astoriaunt, Miasia, and Aris who stuck it out either to, or nearly to the end. I'm super thankful to nerd_dog and to queentushy for arriving at the end of the day to help us whisk away our leftovers. And to Chris who brought miracle cupcakes. Also thanks to: leah_puppette Alisha effronteryLouise Delyn Cara Felice Bethany Ellen Fran Grace Laurie Joan Liz Ashley Susan Johara Leslie Nicole Kim Beverly Corinna Marina Brash I hope I didn't miss anyone on this list! If I did, chalk it up to the fact that my brain hurts! Most especially I'm thankful for everyone who donated clothes, who came to volunteer (scheduled or not), and who generally gave each other compliments and spread the love throughout the day. I can't wait for the next one! | | Sunday, April 5th, 2009 | 1:13 pm
[pinkprincesszoe]
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Mark your calendars! NOLOSE Benefit in Brooklyn, Saturday 5/2/09
Mark your calendars, because on Saturday, May 2, bias_cut and I will be co-hosting her 28th birthday party, which will also double as a ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) fatshionista meetup and triple as a NOLOSE fundraiser! The party's at Re/Dress NYC, where there will be shopping, champagne-ing, and dancing! Bring yourself, bring your friends, and get ready to shake it for a big fat cause! If possible, please RSVP via Facebook!  | 12:57 pm
[aisforalisha]
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THANK YOU!
I had an amazing time yesterday with all of the amazing folks at the flea. highlights: -the line that went around the room. ok, it wasn't a fun thing to get through, but it was amazing to see everyone there shopping, donating, & vounteering. <3 -the sorting table and everyone I volunteered with and all the wonderful conversations. <3 -the amazing clothes I got.. whomever donated the size 20, black wraparound lane bryant dress with the collar; the size 24, black dress with the red and white japanese style embellishments from torrid; the size 22/24 black short coat with the pewter-ish buttons; and of course, the size 18 denim, knee length Ashley Stewart coat [dubbed, the "bad mutha-shutyomouth!" coat].. well. THANK YOU. <3 -seeing friends, acquaintences, & familiar faces from nolose.. [ps: I'm really friendly, so if you ever see me, strike up a convo! the more queer fatties in my life, the better!] <3 -hearing all of the amazing compliments coming from.. well.. all over the room! I've heard people talk about it, but felt like I'd be uncomfortable complimenting complete strangers who didn't ask for my opinion/asking for the opinions of complete strangers.. but wow. it was great. I complimented so many people, got opinions and even randomly asked people to determine the final verdict.. [special shoutout to the dressing room and mitch, marisa, bevin, and everyone at the entrance whom I asked for an opinion while they were trying to relax and eat lunch. much thanks.] <3 -molly [I think is her name] who my friend dana and I randomly ran into coming off the train at 8th & 14th and led us the rest of the way to the center. <3 I love this amazing event and the creators have my deepest thanks.. and I hope a lot of money was raised for nolose!! | | Saturday, April 4th, 2009 | 3:50 pm
[beccawrites]
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gratitude for the fat girl flea
do read susanstinson's post in honor of the flea. today for the first time ever i stood in the line outside the flea waiting to get in at opening. every other year i've done some combination of making signs, getting there early to help sort and set up, helping pick up clothes from new jersey and brooklyn and manhattan, shlepping bag after bag after bag of clothing, sorting, laughing, grumbling, trying on, tiring out, and on the day of shouting at the top of my lungs "welcome to the fat girl flea market, you look fabulous!" this year, for no particular reason, i didn't do any of that at all. i just made a couple donations and shopped. and now i'm home the proud new owner of some really cool really cheap stuff (i won't list it here, but trust me). i did find a good home for a jones of new york blazer that was a little too big for me. i learned that there will be a fabulous new massage therapist at the next nolose. i marveled at a disco ball with a new baby friend. and i appreciated (again) the magic, community, and generosity that seems to surround this event. so... i just wanted to send a big thank you to everyone who worked to put the flea together this year: b & m, and all the volunteers and donors and and and... i hope that you have the full impact of your work, i hope that you got some cool clothes, i hope that you are able to bring this labor/magic to everything in your lives, and revel in what you've created! and a big thanks to bounce_n_jiggle for sitting in a coffee house years ago, seeing the lack of vintage options for the fat girls, and from that initial spark (and countless hours of hard work and creativity) willing into being brand new, beautiful, magical community institutions. thanks. love, becca | | Thursday, March 26th, 2009 | 6:02 pm
[queen_bbb]
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The Fat Girl Flea Market is next Saturday!!! We need help!!!
The Fat Girl Flea Market is next Saturday!!! I need local NOLOSE people to step up, volunteer and help make this happen!Saturday April 4th 11am - 8pm $8 entrance fee LGBT Center -- 208 West 13th Street, 3rd floor, Manhattan, NYC For more information regarding the Fat Girl Flea Market, please see our website! http://www.fatgirlfleamarket.com/WHAT WE NEED TO HAVE HAPPEN TO MAKE THE FLEA MARKET A SUCCESS: *We need volunteers to drive the truck from the Jersey City storage space to the LGBT Center on Friday, April 3 at 1 PM. Seriously, the Flea won't happen unless someone can drive this truck! *We need volunteers to load up the truck in JC on Friday April 3 at 1 PM! *We need bags! Can you donate shopping bags to us? Have a business that wants to put your card in all the bags people leave the flea with? Get in touch! *We need one more cash box! Can you loan us one? *We need mirrors for the dressing room. Can you loan us a few? *We need a food vendor. Want to earn money for your organization selling food to our famished shoppers and volunteers? Get in touch! *Want to vend? If you're vending anything other than used clothing of interest to the discerning plus size shopper, get in touch about renting a table! *We need boxes! Big boxes! If you have some please get in touch! Get in touch=email info@fatgirlfleamarket.com DONATIONS! *We will be taking donations up until 4 PM on the DAY OF the Flea Market! The tables will continue to be replenished throughout the day--you don't have to schedule any pick-ups! All donations are tax deductible! For more information about donations, please see our website. http://www.fatgirlfleamarket.com/howdonate.htmlThis is the largest fundraiser for NOLOSE, and we thank you profusely in advance for your support!!! xoxoxoxo! Bevin Flea Market Captain, 2009 –— –— –— –— –— Bevin Branlandingham Host/Producer FemmeCast: The Queer Fat Femme Podcast Guide to Life www.Femme-Cast.com Head Madam, Femme Family NYC www.femmefamily.com | | Friday, March 20th, 2009 | 1:44 pm
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