in search of fat and queer rep @becausewedeservetotakeupspace - Tumblr Blog

Wonderful blog!! I love seeing queer & fat stuff, trying to get more of it on my dash. Do you have any recommendations for blogs to follow that feature fat art & people? Bonus if they have queer stuff & POC

Thank you!

A huge reason for this blog is that I want to see that stuff as well.

As far as blogs that curate posts of fat art and people, consider following: @happyfat @chubstr @fine-ass-fatshion @fatphobiabusters @fatiscool @fatqueerlove @my-big-fat-aesthetic-blog

As for blogs that curate posts of queer art and people, consider following: @blackfemmelove @transbearsofcolor @yourdailyqueer @my-nonbinary-crushes @jojo-oliver @transmascore @queermasculine @homobeast

As for individual creators, please browse through the blogs to find and support the people who share their photos, fashion, and art with us. I know I'm always encouraged by people re-blogging and commenting on my queer and fat art!

I know I reblogged a link to someone's google doc where they were trying to amass a list of fat creators but I can't seem to find it again. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

As an aside, I have yet to find the transfem corner of tumblr, if it has survived the terfy 'nsfw' purges. Apologies for imbalances when it comes to that and other representation. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it!

Also, if anyone has any suggestions for other blogs to follow please send them our way!!

levymcgarden55

Some blogs that make and/or post fat art: @fagboyfriend @prancingpixie (<-these two consistently makes IDs) @vylirium @sergle @gwynnieliz @recovering-vamp @zoskyto-art @gayestcowboys @fairune @selkieskies @mayakern @ramenmom @thatchickmaya @snejkha @orquidialgbt (that last one is inactive)

becausewedeservetotakeupspace

This was the post I was thinking of: https://www.tumblr.com/wizardsorbet/723405231468281856/fat-artists-masterlist

@wizardsorbet is currently amassing a list of fat creators across a lot of sites, if you are looking for individual creators to follow, he has got the start of a great list!

Link to the doc in case tumblr’s spagetti code breaks the link to the post:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LcpRFECqlNI5ghP4DgEqlUKF6d29zuVCaHofONJGhF4

There is also this post that has a growing list of artists who draw fat art:

@artbyroan is another one whose fat fantasy portraits have been bringing me joy lately

becausewedeservetotakeupspace

Also if you or someone you know is a fat and queer creator please send me:

1. The username

2. Tags where I can find their art or photos

I'd love to expand what I post here.

#sam.txt

onehandkilling

i love being fat. i fought tooth and nail for this love for my body and it will not be taken from me

zarstarss

whats cooking good looking

ode-on-a-grecian-butt

art by @niochemblyat

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Laura Aguilar is a Los Angeles-based photographer whose work mines the intersection between feminism, body image, queer politics, and latinx identity. Her earliest works depicted latina lesbians in intimate portraits, calling to mind the frankness of Catherine Opie, while her best known series features self-portraits of Aguilar posed nude in the California desert landscape. These photographs are instantly striking, finding in the artist’s body formal elements that echo the landscape itself, as in its doubling here with the giant rock that eludes the frame. Aguilar also forces our gaze onto a body that does not conform to stereotypical images of latinx or feminine identity—a body type that is not so much othered as invisible, despite its ubiquity. The artist originally began to produce these photos as a means of grappling with her own issues with weight and self-acceptance, but quickly came to see them as something more. They offer a profound, ambivalent vision of woman and nature. We see Aguilar dissolve into the landscape in search of anonymity, at the same time that she reclaims the pride and beauty in her body far removed from the society that rejects it.

Laura Aguilar, Grounded #111, 1992

elierlick

You wouldn't know it from mainstream media, but cis lesbians are the most supportive group of trans people... even more than trans people ourselves!

Media doesn't present reality: it creates it. The moral panic over trans women in queer spaces is a contrived conflict invented to drive our community apart. But our movements are connected at their core, and we are stronger together.

luxus-aeterna

A fit for a visit to the Rialto Square Theater (opened in 1926) to watch a silent film.

plus-size-aesthetics

forestgreenlesbian

Dykes photobook, Emily Lipson

victusinveritas

"Now I've shot so many Nazis, Daddy will have to buy me a sable coat." (From his Wikipedia article).

Neil Munro "Bunny" Roger

June 9, 1911-April 27, 1997.

Bunny Roger killed a bunch of Nazis and then invented Capri pants.

He was expelled from Oxford for his indiscrete gayness (discrete gayness being perfectly fine at Oxford and part of the curriculum until...today probably, at least like 1992?). Then, having been sent down to London, he started his own fashion business, and his first client was Vivien Leigh.

Bunny served in WWII, killing fascists in North Africa and Italy, and often wearing a mauve scarf in the field. Roger claimed that he had gone into a battle brandishing a rolled-up copy of VOGUE and commanding: "When in doubt, powder heavily!"

Roger was known in high society for his themed soirées; Diamond, Amethyst, and Flame Balls were held to celebrate his 60th, 70th, and 80th birthdays. He wore a curious plum colored catsuit with a feathered headdress at his 70th birthday ball in 1981. At his 80th, he made his entrance in a catsuit of scarlet sequins with a cape of orange organza, greeting his guests from behind a wall of fire. His parties were covered by the newspapers, including a New Year's Eve Fetish Ball where the proper upper class mixed with young guests in rubber S/M gear.

From an obituary: "Beneath his mauve mannerisms, Bunny was stalwart, frank, dependable and undeceived; to onlookers a passing peacock, to intimates, a life enhancer and exemplary friend."

From another obituary: