Calling All Abundant, Fat, Plus Sized, Succulent, and Thick Peoples From All Over!
This year at the Allied Media Conference 2015 (June 18-21 in Detroit, MI) we are coming back together to continue our conversations, share skills, experiences, stories, media, knowledge and strategies to build a more beautiful, body accepting and abundant loving future!
ln this track we will gather, share and celebrate the wisdom and abundance of our bodies. Abundant / thick / fat bodies are the target of so much hate, policing and negativity, even in our organizing communities. How do we unlearn mainstream ideas of what a body should look like and (re)-learn to celebrate the diversity, resilience, wisdom and beauty of all bodies? How can we work together to deconstruct fat stigma and other forms of marginalization while building a stronger inclusive fat community? How can we challenge ourselves to decenter whiteness, capitalism, ableism, cissexism, heterosexism and classism while we explore what it means to be fat?
This track will explore these questions and create spaces to challenge the ongoing ways mainstream media shames and harms abundant bodies. Our goal in our organizing and activism is to create media and practical strategies for resistance, healing and community building. We will broaden the conversation around fat activism by centering this track on the voices of Indigenous, Black, People of Color, Dis/abled, Super-sized, Trans and Queer fat folks. Through workshops, panels and skillshares we will transform mainstream ideas around abundant bodies and create resilient communities utilizing different forms of media such as zines, theater, oral histories, poetry, social media, dance, comics, and art.
We are looking for sessions that speak to but are not limited by the following types of themes and proposals:
Ally building for thin folks and privileged fat folks
Body Autonomy and Social Media
Anti-racist fat activism for white fat activists
Skillshares/tools for surviving and thriving
Bodies, Health and Movement
Breaking down the connection between health and weight
Body movement / dance / practice for all bodies
Super-sized community members
Fatness at its intersections
Fatness and Femme identity
Sci-Fi Bodies as fat and queer and People of Color
Physical and mental disabilities and fatness
History of Indigenous / People of Color / Black / Trans / Dis/ability / Supersize fat activism
Tools for young fat folks
Breaking down discussions about obesity through race, class, gender and other identities
Constructing the fat body through collaborative media projects
Demystifying media around fat bodies
Cyber space/futurity and fat bodies
Challenging mainstream media
Older fat bodies and visibility
Fat bodies and desirability
Oral history, poetry and other creative forms of resistance
Proposals are due March 2nd, 2015 at midnight. Submit YOURS by filling out the form linked here.
If you have any questions regarding your proposal or this track, please contact us via on the Abundant Bodies Discussion Page on AMP Talk or at [email protected].
**Abundant Bodies and the Allied Media Conference is committed to creating a space that allows for access to all community members regardless of economics. We will be fundraising in the near future to make sure we can support all of the session coordinators who need it in order to give as many voices in fat community the platform they deserve.
