About me
I am a self-identified working class fat brown queer femme cis man, and a first-generation college student working towards degrees in Anthropology and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. This winter I participated in a collaborative performance art piece about fat, queer, femme experience called Fat: the Play with six other fat queer femmes in Austin. Our play won Best of the Fest at Austin’s 2014 Frontera Festival and went on to perform for two additional sold-out audiences of community members at Austin’s Treasure City Thrift. The cast then presented a panel about the play and our process at this year’s Feminist Action Project Conference at UT Austin. Another cast member and I have been selected to facilitate a workshop about writing and performing fatness at this year’s Allied Media Conference in Detroit, Michigan.
About AMC
From their website: “The ALLIED MEDIA CONFERENCE is a collaborative laboratory of media-based organizing strategies for transforming our world, held every Summer in Detroit. The AMC is a network of networks – social justice organizers, community technologists, transformative artists, educators, entrepreneurs, and many others – all using media in innovative ways.”
About our workshop
Our workshop will create a space for fat-identified folks to come together and talk and write about our experiences as fat folks and, especially, how our fatness works with our other identities. How is our fatness impacted by our size, gender, race, class, ability status, sexuality, documentation status, our geographic location, and more? We will talk a little bit about our process of writing about our fatness to create Fat: the Play as a framework for workshop attendees, with the goal of leaving them with some writing, ideas on how to perform it, and, most importantly— fat community and empowerment.
Help me get to Detroit!
Because I am a college student and the workshop falls during the summer, I need help getting there! The summer time is when I am supported solely by my retail job, that does not allow me to spend extra money on traveling. Though I have reached out to my university for funding, they, too, are the end of their budget cycle and are unable to sponsor me. So I am turning to my community for help!
Where your money goes:
$400 for travel (flight)
$250 for food during my 5-day trip
$150 for housing.
$40 for gofundme fees
The AMC is an amazing opportunity for me and I am incredibly excited for the possibility to attend and participate. My deepest gratitude for your support in any way you can give!
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