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Westminster Flabby, Gaithersburg, MD (2026)

10/29/2024

HAPPY HALLOWEEK 2024 FROM Westminster Flabby!

It’s October – second month of Fall, Elul and Tishrei, LGBTQ+ History Month and the second half of Latinx Month. Month of Rosh Hashanah, the Days of Awe, Coming Out Day, Yom Kippur, Indigenous Peoples Day, Sukkot, Pronouns Day, Simchat Torah, Shemini Atzeret, Intersex Day, and Halloween.

Alas, C0V!D is STILL p@nd3m!c – very common, contagious, dangerous, damaging, disabling and deadly for everyone. Fatness isn’t a risk factor, but fat oppression is. Mask, vax (with a longer needle if you have fat arms), clean and test your air and yourself, isolate, educate, advocate.

🗞 Fellow locals, follow the DMV Fat-Positive Community, Body Liberation Baltimore, and Plush DMV!
🗞 Fellow fat-attracted q***rs and allies, patr(e)onize my favorite podcast -- The Big Fat Gay Podcast!
🗞 Dancing queens, kings and monarchs, Fat Dance party is back every Friday and Sunday on Zoom – FatDanceParty at gmail dot com.
~~~
🗞 October 30th through November 2nd is BiggerVegas’ BiggerCruise.
~~~
🗞 THIS FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1ST is NAAFA’s Board of Directors application deadline. AND “Weight For It” In Conversation Live! with special guest Lindy West .
🗞 November 2nd is Bigger Bodies Boston’s FIRST Plus Size Clothing Swap at First Parish in Malden Unitarian Universalist Church.
🗞 November 9th and every second Saturday is Henry Paquin Presents' Belly party for chubbies and their admirers.
🗞 November 13th is Ragen Chastain - Public Page’s next Monthly Online Workshop – Dealing With Diet Culture and Weight Stigma At The Holidays.
🗞 November 18th is ASDAH’s 5-Point Compassionate Care Audit : Assess Your Fat Accessibility.
🗞 November 19th is Plush Bodies Book Club: Fearing The Black Body by Sabrina Strings .
🗞 November 24th is Falling For Myself Plus Size Market.
~~~
🗞 In December, ASDAH will have a Healing Event (topic TBD, community event).
🗞 December 8th is another Fat Flea -- Minneapolis’ Body Positive Fat Centric Market.
🗞 December 15th is PLUSH & FLOW: A Bigger Body Wellness Experience .
🗞 December 19th is Bounce House Burlesque at Lincoln Center in NYC.
~~~
🗞 In January, February and March of 2025, ASDAH will have a three-part series on Weight Loss Drugs (education event).
🗞 January 31st through February 2nd (2025) is Fat Con.
~~~
🗞 April 16th through 19th, the Popular Culture Association Fat Studies Area will be fattening New Orleans at the PCA’s National Conference.
🗞 Also in April, ASDAH will have Patient Self-Advocacy around Weight Loss Drugs at the Doctor’s Office (community event).
~~~
🗞 In May, ASDAH will have a community event (topic TBD).
🗞 In June, ASDAH will have an UnConference.
🗞 July 2nd is BiggerVegas 2025.

(The image is a meme I made with Canva -- “WESTMINSTER FLABBY WEEKLY / All The News That’s Fat To Print” in black on a purple square with a black border of newspapers, and “CELEBRATING SIX YEARS / 2018 - 2024” in white.)

🕍🗞💜📰💒

10/25/2024

CHAG SHEMINI ATZERET SAMEACH 5785! I’m writing to highly recommend my local friend and colleague Rabbi Julia Watts Belser’s book “Loving Our Own Bones : Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole”. This is also a coming out post.

(“They’re coming out AGAIN?!” says someone in the back. I know, right? Nu, make yourself some popcorn and get comfortable.)

The book was published a year ago, but as much as I love it, it took me a long time to read, and write about. I especially need and appreciate this book as a Jewish, trans and q***r person and advocate, but this book is necessary for people of many other identities as well. Over the past year, I’ve been blessed to explore the book in community at Ruach HaYam (Spirit of the Sea), the monthly q***r Torah study group I’ve been a member of for years; our teacher is a big fan of Rabbi Julia’s, and with good reason.

I wanted to write this as an ally in and to the disability justice community. And a spouse and caregiver of a chronically ill and disabled person. And a family member of several “spoonies” and “crips”. Spoonie is based on Spoon Theory, where spoons symbolize the reduced and limited supplies of energy ill people have every day, and how quickly we have to spend them. Crip is a reclamation of “cripple”.

However, a few years ago I began to realize and accept that I had become chronically ill, and that it had started to disable me. I have become a spoonie, and am becoming a crip. I don’t know what I’m sick with, or why. I do know that the great majority of our health is controlled by genetics, social determinants and environmental triggers (including viruses), not individual choices like food (“diet”) or movement (“exercise”).

My working theory is I have a mild-ish case of ME/CFS (Myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome). Much of my chronic pain and discomfort seems to be explained by an MRI of my lower back that showed my spine is starting to deteriorate. But it’s hard to access diagnoses and treatments during an ongoing p@nd@m!c that Kaiser Mid-Atlantic and most of the rest of our healthcare system is refusing to mitigate.

I don’t think my illness was triggered by C0V!D, or is L0ng C0V!D, because I don’t think I’ve had C0V!D (though most cases are asymptomatic, and symptoms vary widely). How much more so, my symptoms started before I could have had C0V!D; the more I think about it, the farther back I see symptoms, and denial.

That being said, CoViD is very common, contagious, dangerous, damaging, disabling and deadly – for everyone. Every infection damages the immune system and the rest of the body (including the brain), and the damage and risks are cumulative. Everyone who can must mask (with an N95 or better if possible), vax (with a longer needle if you have fat arms), clean and test your air and yourself (while aware of the high false negative rates of most home tests), isolate, educate, and advocate. People who are ill, disabled and/or in other oppressed groups are at higher risk, can’t avoid infected people all the time, and deserve equal access to society (such as it is).

I’m so grateful that I found disability justice, including Rabbi Julia’s wonderful work, before I started to become disabled myself. It’s very challenging to be ill and disabled in this extremely healthist and ableist society. And in a special way as a caregiver. It’s even harder without community, and liberation work.

I’m also very grateful that I found fat liberation before my illness and aging caused me to gain weight. It helps to be a fat-attracted person, with a fat partner, but it’s still complicated. There’s nothing wrong with being fat, or gaining weight, no matter what one’s size. And we all need to maintain and gain weight as we age – especially those of us who are going to go through menopause. Too, intentional weight loss attempts are very harmful to ourselves and others, in many ways. Yet fat oppression tells us just the opposite, and lies that it’s about “health” and “wellness”.

One of the best things about Rabbi Julia's book is that she knows that disability justice must be intersectional with fat liberation, and makes that explicit in her text. Beginning with “A world where disabled bodies, Black bodies, Brown bodies, fat bodies, slow bodies, women’s bodies, immigrant bodies, Muslim bodies, Jewish bodies, silent, stuttering, blind, and q***r bodies, old bodies, trans bodies, homeless bodies are all safe on the streets of our cities.” She uses the word “fat” many times, and each time correctly – no, that shouldn’t be extraordinary, but it is.

Todah rabah (many thanks) for writing, publishing and promoting this, Julia! It has helped me learn to love my own bones better, and it will continue to. It will help many other people, too.

The image is a selfie of me with my copy of the book. And I’m giving away these earrings, so if you want them, let me know. Closeup in comments. ✡️🏳️‍🌈♿️🏳️‍⚧️🔯

10/22/2024

AN OCTOBER OF ORGANIZING TO YOU FROM Westminster Flabby! Second month of Fall, Elul and Tishrei, LGBTQ+ History Month and the second half of Latinx Month. Month of Rosh Hashanah, the Days of Awe, Coming Out Day, Yom Kippur, Indigenous Peoples Day, Sukkot, Pronouns Day, Simchat Torah, Shemini Atzeret, Intersex Day, and Halloween.

Alas, C0V!D is still p@nd3m!c – very common, contagious, dangerous, damaging, disabling and deadly. Fatness isn’t a risk factor, but fat oppression is. Mask, vax (with a longer needle if you have fat arms), clean and test your air and yourself, isolate, educate, advocate.

🗞 Fellow locals, follow the DMV Fat-Positive Community, Body Liberation Baltimore, and Plush DMV!
🗞 Fellow fat-attracted and q***r folks, patr(e)onize my favorite podcast -- The Big Fat Gay Podcast!
🗞 Dancing queens, kings and nonbinary monarchs, Fat Dance party is back every Friday and Sunday on Zoom – FatDanceParty at gmail dot com.
~~~
🗞 THIS FRIDAY OCTOBER 25TH is NAAFA’s monthly Fat Fridays Virtual Social Club on Zoom. AND ASDAH’s “Health, Healthism, And The Good Fatty : Exploring Healthcare For The Bad Fatty”.
🗞 NEXT MONDAY OCTOBER 28TH is NAAFA’s Fat Community Storytime : Halloween Edition with Bats Langley.
🗞 October 30th through November 2nd is BiggerVegas’ BiggerCruise.
~~~
🗞 In November, ASDAH will have a Compassionate Care Audit member event.
🗞 November 1st is NAAFA’s Board of Directors application deadline. AND “Weight For It” In Conversation Live! with special guest Lindy West .
🗞 November 2nd is Bigger Bodies Boston’s FIRST Plus Size Clothing Swap at First Parish in Malden Unitarian Universalist Church.
🗞 November 9th and every second Saturday is Henry Paquin Presents' Belly party for chubbies and their admirers.
🗞 November 13th is Ragen Chastain - Public Page’s next Monthly Online Workshop – Dealing With Diet Culture and Weight Stigma At The Holidays.
🗞 November 19th is Plush DMV and Body Liberation Baltimore’s Plush Bodies Book Club – with Dr. Sabrina Strings’ "Fearing the Black Body”
🗞 November 24th is Falling For Myself Plus Size Market.
~~~
🗞 In December, ASDAH will have a Healing Event (topic TBD, community event).
🗞 December 8th is another Fat Flea -- Minneapolis’ Body Positive Fat Centric Market.
🗞 December 19th is Bounce House Burlesque at Lincoln Center in NYC.
~~~
🗞 In January, February and March of 2025, ASDAH will have a three-part series on Weight Loss Drugs (education event).
🗞 January 31st through February 2nd (2025) is Fat Con.
~~~
🗞 April 16th through 19th, the Popular Culture Association Fat Studies Area will be fattening New Orleans at the PCA’s National Conference.
🗞 Also in April, ASDAH will have Patient Self-Advocacy around Weight Loss Drugs at the Doctor’s Office (community event).
~~~
🗞 In May, ASDAH will have a community event (topic TBD).
🗞 In June, ASDAH will have an UnConference.
🗞 July 2nd is BiggerVegas 2025.

(The image is a meme I made with Canva -- “WESTMINSTER FLABBY WEEKLY / All The News That’s Fat To Print” in black on a purple square with a black border of newspapers, and “CELEBRATING SIX YEARS / 2018 - 2024” in white.) 🕍🗞💜📰💒

10/08/2024

The image is a meme that says “Join Fat Studies scholars, activists, and authors – We’re fattening New Orleans – Fat Studies Area of the PCA National Conference – April 16 - 19, 2025”. 🟥🟥🟥

"PCA Fat Studies Area Call for Papers

Fat Studies is an interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary field of study that confronts and critiques cultural constraints against notions of “fatness” and “the fat body”; explores fat bodies as they live in, are shaped by, and remake the world; and creates paradigms for the development of fat acceptance or celebration within mass culture. Fat Studies uses body size as the starting point for a wide-ranging theorization and explication of how societies and cultures, past and present, have conceptualized all bodies and the political/cultural meanings ascribed to every body. Fat Studies reminds us that all bodies are inscribed with the fears and hopes of the particular culture they reside in, and these emotions often are mislabeled as objective “facts” of health and biology. More importantly, perhaps, Fat Studies insists on the recognition that fat identity can be as fundamental and world-shaping as other identity constructs analyzed within the academy and represented in media.

Please join other Fat Studies scholars for the PCA/ACA National Conference. Presenters must become members of the Popular Culture Association. Find more information on the conference and organization at https://pcaaca.org/conference .

Please do not email your abstract to the Fat Studies Area Chair; you must submit your presentation via the PCA/ACA website. You can find instructions here: http://pcaaca.org . For individual papers, please submit a title and 100-word abstract. For themed paper sessions, each presenter must enter their own presentation, and the session chair should contact Lesleigh Owen ([email protected]) to assemble them into a panel. Please also contact Lesleigh for help in submitting roundtable discussions.

Fat Studies is amenable to papers and performances from academics, researchers, intellectuals, activists, and artists, in any field of study, and at any stage in their career.

All submissions are welcome, but please ensure your proposal fits within the academic and political scopes of Fat Studies. Please also be mindful that Fat Studies is a political project and not merely an umbrella term for all discussions of larger bodies. Additionally, submitters should rethink using words like “obesity” and “overweight” in their presentations unless they are used ironically, within quotes, or accompanied by a political analysis.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the PCA/ACA Fat Studies Chair, Lesleigh Owen ([email protected] ).

Important Dates to Remember:
Database opens for Submissions - Sept. 1, 2024
Early Bird Registration Begins - Oct. 1, 2024
Deadline for Paper Proposals - Nov. 30, 2024
Travel Grant Applications Due - Dec. 15, 2024
Early Bird Registration Ends for Presenters - Dec. 31, 2024
Regular Registration Begins for Presenters - Jan. 1, 2025
Travel Grant Decisions / Notifications - Jan. 15, 2025
Regular Registration Ends for Presenters - Jan. 31, 2025
Late Registration Starts for Presenters - Feb. 1, 2025
Preliminary Program draft available - Feb. 5, 2025
Late Registration Ends for Presenters- Feb. 15, 2025

Those presenters not registered by Feb. 15 will be dropped from the program.
CONFERENCE IN NEW ORLEANS, LA - April 16-19, 2025"

10/08/2024

AN OCTOBER OF ORGANIZING TO YOU FROM Westminster Flabby!

Second month of Fall, Elul and Tishrei, LGBTQ+ History Month and the second half of Latinx Month. Month of Rosh Hashanah, the Days of Awe, Coming Out Day, Yom Kippur, Indigenous Peoples Day, Sukkot, Pronouns Day, Intersex Day, and Halloween.

Alas, C0V!D is still p@nd3m!c – very common, contagious, dangerous, damaging, disabling and deadly. Fatness isn’t a risk factor, but fat oppression is. Mask, vax (with a longer needle if you have fat arms), clean and test your air and yourself, isolate, educate, advocate.

🗞 Fellow locals, check out the DMV Fat-Positive Community, Body Liberation Baltimore, and Plush DMV!
🗞 Fellow fat-attracted and q***r folks, patr(e)onize my favorite podcast -- The Big Fat Gay Podcast!
🗞 Dancing queens, kings and nonbinary monarchs, Fat Dance party is returning every Friday and Sunday on Zoom – FatDanceParty at gmail dot com.
~~~
🗞 TOMORROW October 9th and second Wednesdays through February is NAAFA's To Be Seen : A Generative Writing Workshop Series with Vanessa Chica Ferreira.
🗞 THIS SATURDAY October 12th is NAAFA’s Fat Community Story Hour with Hannah Moushabeck.
🗞 October 18th through 20th is Philly FatCon 2024. AND Fat Dance Party returns every Friday on Zoom – FatDanceParty at gmail dot com.
🗞 October 25th is is NAAFA’s monthly Fat Fridays Virtual Social Club on Zoom. AND ASDAH’s “Health, Healthism, And The Good Fatty : Exploring Healthcare For The Bad Fatty”.
🗞 October 30th through November 2nd is BiggerVegas’ BiggerCruise.
~~~
🗞 In November, ASDAH will have a Compassionate Care Audit member event.
🗞 November 1st is “Weight For It” In Conversation Live! with special guest Lindy West .
🗞 November 2nd is Bigger Bodies Boston’s FIRST Plus Size Clothing Swap at First Parish in Malden Unitarian Universalist Church.
🗞 November 9th and every second Saturday is Henry Paquin Presents' Belly party for chubbies and their admirers.
🗞 November 13th is Ragen Chastain - Public Page’s next Monthly Online Workshop – Dealing With Diet Culture and Weight Stigma At The Holidays.
🗞 November 19th is Plush DMV and Body Liberation Baltimore’s Plush Bodies Book Club – with Dr. Sabrina Strings’ "Fearing the Black Body”
~~~
🗞 In December, ASDAH will have a Healing Event (topic TBD, community event).
🗞 December 8th is another Fat Flea : Minneapolis’ Body Positive Fat Centric Market.
🗞 December 19th is Bounce House Burlesque at Lincoln Center in NYC.
~~~
🗞 In January, February and March of 2025, ASDAH will have a three-part series on Weight Loss Drugs (education event).
🗞 January 31st through February 2nd (2025) is Fat Con.
🗞 In April, ASDAH will have Patient Self-Advocacy around Weight Loss Drugs at the Doctor’s Office (community event).
🗞 In May, ASDAH will have a community event (topic TBD).
🗞 In June, ASDAH will have an UnConference.

(The image is a meme I made with Canva -- “WESTMINSTER FLABBY WEEKLY / All The News That’s Fat To Print” in black on a purple square with a black border of newspapers, and “CELEBRATING SIX YEARS / 2018 - 2024” in white.)

🕍🗞💜📰💒

10/01/2024

BISEXUAL MONTH BLESSINGS FROM Westminster Flabby!

It’s September 2024 – first month of Fall, Av and Elul of 5784, Bisexual Month and the first half of Latinx Month. Month of Labor Day, my marriage and meeting in person anniversaries with my spouse, the anniversary of 9/11, the Autumnal Equinox, and Bisexual Day.

Alas, C0V!D is still p@nd3m!c, damaging, disabling and deadly. Fatness isn’t a risk factor, but fat oppression is. Mask, vax (with a longer needle if you have fat arms), clean and test your air and yourself, isolate, educate, advocate.

🗞 Fellow locals, check out the DMV Fat-Positive Community, Body Liberation Baltimore, and Plush DMV!
🗞 Fellow fat-attracted and q***r folks, patr(e)onize my favorite podcast -- The Big Fat Gay Podcast!
🗞 Dancing queens, kings and nonbinary monarchs, Fat Dance party is returning every Friday and Sunday on Zoom – FatDanceParty at gmail dot com.
~~~
🗞 October 5th is Fat Market YYC’s The Softest Launch : Fat Liberation Pop-Up Market in Calgary (Alberta, Canada).
🗞 October 9th and second Wednesdays through February is NAAFA's To Be Seen : A Generative Writing Workshop Series with Vanessa Chica Ferreira.
🗞 October 12th is NAAFA’s Fat Community Story Hour with Hannah Moushabeck.
🗞 October 18th through 20th is Philly FatCon 2024. AND Fat Dance Party returns every Friday on Zoom – FatDanceParty at gmail dot com.
🗞 October 25th is is NAAFA’s monthly Fat Fridays Virtual Social Club on Zoom. AND ASDAH’s “Health, Healthism, And The Good Fatty : Exploring Healthcare For The Bad Fatty”.
🗞 October 30th through November 2nd is BiggerVegas’ BiggerCruise.
~~~
🗞 November 1st is “Weight For It” In Conversation Live! with special guest Lindy West .
🗞 November 2nd is Bigger Bodies Boston’s FIRST Plus Size Clothing Swap at First Parish in Malden Unitarian Universalist Church.
🗞 November 9th and every second Saturday is Henry Paquin Presents' Belly party for chubbies and their admirers in Boston.
🗞 November 19th is Plush DMV and Body Liberation Baltimore’s Plush Bodies Book Club – with Dr. Sabrina Strings’ "Fearing the Black Body”
~~~
🗞 December 19th is Bounce House Burlesque at Lincoln Center in NYC.
~~~
🗞 January 31st through February 2nd (2025) is Fat Con.

(The image is a meme I made with Canva -- “WESTMINSTER FLABBY WEEKLY / All The News That’s Fat To Print” in black on a purple square with a black border of newspapers, and “CELEBRATING SIX YEARS / 2018 - 2024” in white.)

🕍🗞💜📰💒

09/24/2024

“FAT DANCE PARTY
Year Three – Still Virtual (Zoom)
Sundays 8-9 PM – Starts Sept. 22
Fridays 9-10 PM – Starts Oct. 18
Eastern Time
Now $1 per party or $5/month
Small fat and larger bodies – all genders
Move Our Fat Bodies
Join us for the joy of movement in a gentle, supportive atmosphere, where every wiggle brings confidence and joy, and most of us dance sitting down
FatDanceParty at gmail dot com
Google Calendar invite + Zoom link + a few more deets”
(The image is a fun meme with that text, a QR code, and photos of fat folks.)
🎊🎊🎊

09/24/2024

BISEXUAL AND WEIGHT STIGMA AWARENESS WEEK 2024 BLESSINGS AND WISHES FROM Westminster Flabby!

First month of Fall, Av and Elul of 5784, Bisexual Month and the first half of Latinx Month. Month of Labor Day, my marriage and meeting in person anniversaries with my spouse, the anniversary of 9/11, the Autumnal Equinox, and Bisexual Day.

Alas, C0V!D is still p@nd3m!c, damaging, disabling and deadly. Fatness isn’t a risk factor, but fat oppression is. Mask, vax (with a longer needle if you have fat arms), clean and test your air and yourself, isolate, educate, advocate.

🗞 Fellow locals, check out the DMV Fat-Positive Community, Body Liberation Baltimore, and Plush DMV!
🗞 Fellow fat-attracted and q***r folks, patr(e)onize my favorite podcast -- The Big Fat Gay Podcast!
🗞 Fat Dance party is coming back every Friday and Sunday on Zoom – FatDanceParty at gmail dot com.
~~~
🗞 TODAY TUESDAY September 24th through THIS THURSDAY 26th is Weight Stigma Awareness Week 2024.

🗞 TOMORROW WEDNESDAY September 25th is ASDAH's Annual Meeting – Nourishing Our Roots : Committed to the True Essence of Health at Every Size. TOMORROW is also Fat Romance.

🗞 THIS FRIDAY September 27th is NAAFA’s monthly Fat Fridays Virtual Social Club on Zoom.

🗞 THIS SATURDAY September 28th is the Fat Flea: Body Positive, Fat-Centric Market.
~~~
🗞 October 9th and second Wednesdays through February is NAAFA's To Be Seen : A Generative Writing Workshop Series with Vanessa Chica Ferreira.
🗞 October 12th is NAAFA’s Fat Community Story Hour with Hannah Moushabeck.
🗞 October 18th through 20th is Philly FatCon 2024. AND Fat Dance Party returns every Friday on Zoom – FatDanceParty at gmail dot com.
🗞 October 25th is is NAAFA’s monthly Fat Fridays Virtual Social Club on Zoom.
🗞 October 30th through November 2nd is BiggerVegas’ BiggerCruise.
~~~
🗞 December 19th is Bounce House Burlesque at Lincoln Center in NYC.
~~~
🗞 January 31st through February 2nd (2025) is Fat Con.

(The image is a meme I made with Canva -- “WESTMINSTER FLABBY WEEKLY / All The News That’s Fat To Print” in black on a purple square with a black border of newspapers, and “CELEBRATING SIX YEARS / 2018 - 2024” in white.)

🕍🗞💜📰💒

09/17/2024

SEPTEMBER SALUTATIONS FROM Westminster Flabby! First month of Fall 2024, Av and Elul of 5784, Bisexual Month and the first half of Latinx Month. Month of Labor Day, my marriage and meeting in person anniversaries with my spouse, the anniversary of 9/11, the Autumnal Equinox, and Bisexual Day.

Alas, C0V!D is still p@nd3m!c, damaging, disabling and deadly. Fatness isn’t a risk factor, but fat oppression is. Mask, vax (with a longer needle if you have fat arms), clean and test your air and yourself, isolate, etc.

🗞 Here in the DMV? Direct yourself to the DMV Fat-Positive Community, Body Liberation Baltimore, and Plush DMV!
🗞 Fat-attracted and q***r or allied? Patr(e)onize my favorite podcast -- The Big Fat Gay Podcast!
~~~
🗞 TODAY TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 17TH is Ragen Chastain - Public Page's next Monthly Online Workshop -- Dealing With BMI-Based Healthcare Denials (for patients, providers, advocates, and allies).

🗞 THIS SUNDAY September 22nd Fat Dance party returns every Sunday on Zoom – FatDanceParty at gmail dot com.

🗞 September 24th through 26th is Weight Stigma Awareness Week 2024.

🗞 September 25th is ASDAH's Annual Meeting – Nourishing Our Roots : Committed to the True Essence of Health at Every Size. AND Fat Romance.

🗞 September 27th is NAAFA’s monthly Fat Fridays Virtual Social Club on Zoom.

🗞 September 28th is the Fat Flea: Body Positive, Fat-Centric Market.
~~~
🗞 October 18th through 20th is Philly FatCon 2024. AND Fat Dance Party returns every Friday on Zoom – FatDanceParty at gmail dot com.
🗞 October 30th through November 2nd is BiggerVegas’ BiggerCruise.
~~~
🗞 December 19th is Bounce House Burlesque at Lincoln Center in NYC.
~~~
🗞 January 31st through February 2nd (2025) is Fat Con.

(The image is a meme I made with Canva -- “WESTMINSTER FLABBY WEEKLY / All The News That’s Fat To Print” in black on a purple square with a black border of newspapers, and “CELEBRATING SIX YEARS / 2018 - 2024” in white.)

🕍🗞💜📰💒

09/10/2024

THANK YOU, NAAFA!!!

For sending me these flabulous stickers! Because August was Fat Liberation Month, and I’m a NAAFA POD (Passionate Ongoing Donors) member. I expected the two that have awesome artwork by Bats Langley; the third was a pleasant surprise.

All three make my 80s sticker child/girl heart happy. I’m going to put them on my laptop. The image is a selfie of me holding up the stickers.

🟡🟠🔵

09/10/2024

SEPTEMBER SALUTATIONS FROM Westminster Flabby! First month of Fall 2024, Av and Elul of 5784, Bisexual Month and the first half of Latinx Month. Month of Labor Day, my marriage and meeting in person anniversaries with my spouse, the anniversary of 9/11, and Bisexual Day.

Alas, C0V!D is still p@nd3m!c, damaging, disabling and deadly. Fatness isn’t a risk factor, but fat oppression is. Clean and test your air and yourself, vax (with a longer needle if you have fat arms), mask, distance, isolate, etc.

🗞 Here in the DMV? Direct yourself to the DMV Fat-Positive Community, Body Liberation Baltimore, and Plush DMV!
🗞 Fat-attracted and q***r or allied? Patr(e)onize my favorite podcast -- The Big Fat Gay Podcast!
~~~
🗞 TODAY TUESDAY September 10th is NAAFA’s webinar Fat Talk & Burnt Toast with Virginia Sole-Smith. AND Plush Bodies Book Club: Happy Fat.

🗞 THIS SATURDAY September 14th and every second Saturday is Henry Paquin Presents' Belly party for chubbies and their admirers in Boston.

🗞 NEXT TUESDAY September 17th is Ragen Chastain - Public Page's next Monthly Online Workshop -- Dealing With BMI-Based Healthcare Denials (for patients, providers, advocates, and allies).

🗞 September 22nd Fat Dance party returns every Sunday on Zoom – FatDanceParty at gmail dot com.

🗞 September 24th through 26th is Weight Stigma Awareness Week 2024.

🗞 September 25th is ASDAH's Annual Meeting – Nourishing Our Roots : Committed to the True Essence of Health at Every Size. AND Fat Romance – a conversation with Laura Moher - author, hosted by the St. Cloud State Women's Center on Zoom.

🗞 September 27th is NAAFA’s monthly Fat Fridays Virtual Social Club on Zoom.

🗞 September 28th is the Fat Flea -- Minneapolis' First Body Positive Fat-Centric Market.
~~~
🗞 October 18th through 20th is Philly FatCon 2024. AND Fat Dance Party returns every Friday on Zoom – FatDanceParty at gmail dot com.
🗞 October 30th through November 2nd is BiggerVegas’ BiggerCruise.
~~~
🗞 December 19th is Bounce House Burlesque at Lincoln Center in NYC.
~~~
🗞 January 31st through February 2nd (2025) is Fat Con.

(The image is a meme I made with Canva -- “WESTMINSTER FLABBY WEEKLY / All The News That’s Fat To Print” in black on a purple square with a black border of newspapers, and “CELEBRATING SIX YEARS / 2018 - 2024” in white.)

🕍🗞💜📰💒

09/03/2024

SEPTEMBER 2024 SALUTATIONS FROM Westminster Flabby!

First month of Fall, Av and Elul of 5784, Bisexual Month and the first half of Latinx Month. Month of Labor Day, my marriage and meeting in person anniversaries with my spouse, the anniversary of 9/11, and Bisexual Day.

Alas, CoViD is still p@nd3m!c, damaging disabling and deadly. Fatness isn’t a risk factor, but fat oppression is. Clean and test your air and yourself, vax (with a longer needle if you have fat arms), mask, distance, isolate, etc.

🗞 Here in the DMV? Direct yourself to the DMV Fat-Positive Community, Body Liberation Baltimore, and Plush DMV!
🗞 Fat-attracted and q***r or allied? Patr(e)onize my favorite podcast -- The Big Fat Gay Podcast!
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🗞 THIS FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY, September 6th through 8th, is BiggerVegas’ BiggerBash.

🗞 THIS SATURDAY September 7th is The Edmonton Fiercly Fat Market! .

🗞 THIS SUNDAY September 8th is the Big Fat Super Swap - Rescheduled to 9/8!! .

🗞 NEXT TUESDAY September 10th is Plush Bodies Book Club: Happy Fat.

🗞 September 14th and every second Saturday is Henry Paquin Presents' Belly party for chubbies and their admirers in Boston.
🗞 September 17th is Ragen Chastain - Public Page's next Monthly Online Workshop -- Dealing With BMI-Based Healthcare Denials (for patients, providers, advocates, and allies).
🗞 September 25th is ASDAH's Annual Meeting – Nourishing Our Roots : Committed to the True Essence of Health at Every Size.
🗞 September 28th is the Fat Flea -- Minneapolis' First Body Positive Fat-Centric Market.
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🗞 October 18th through 20th is Philly FatCon 2024.
🗞 October 30th through November 2nd is BiggerVegas’ BiggerCruise.
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🗞 December 19th is Bounce House Burlesque at Lincoln Center in NYC.
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🗞 January 31st through February 2nd (2025) is Fat Con.

(The image is a meme I made with Canva -- “WESTMINSTER FLABBY WEEKLY / All The News That’s Fat To Print” in black on a purple square with a black border of newspapers, and “CELEBRATING SIX YEARS / 2018 - 2024” in white.)

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