Get ready, y’all. BUSTING OUT, a series of 4 conversations bridging Fat Lib and PIC Abolition, will fatten up IG Live at @fatlibink beginning in June. No registration needed – – just visit @fatlibink’s IG page at the scheduled time to attend. Don’t want to miss out? Follow us on Instagram and turn on post notifications.
We have an incredible line-up of speakers dishing up some revolutionary wisdom on:
Anti-Blackness + Anti-Fatness
Carcerality, Punishment + Anti-Fatness
Surveillance of Bodies
Transformative Justice and Fat Liberation
ACCESS INFO: While we will not have live captioning during the livestreams, we will caption and re-upload the videos afterwards.
Thank you to MSFOC / Midwest-Southern Fat Organizing Convening (@msfoc2020) and NAAFA / the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (@naafaofficial)! Their generous funding is going directly to support each of our 9 speakers with a stipend.
Anti-Blackness and Anti-Fatness
MONDAY, JUNE 14 at 5pm PT/8pm ET
Featuring Hunter Shackelford and Da’Shaun Harrison
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Carcerality, Punishment and Anti-Fatness
TUESDAY, JUNE 15 at 5pm PT/8pm ET
Featuring Wendi Moore-O’Neal, Mandisa Moore-O’Neal, and Kytara Epps
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Surveillance of Bodies
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16 at 5pm PT/8pm ET
Featuring Caleb Luna and Sonalee Rashatwar
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Transformative Justice and Fat Liberation
THURSDAY, JUNE 17 at 5pm PT/8pm ET
Featuring Shannon Perez-Darby and Cory Lira
More info
Image Descriptions
Image 1: In the center of the image, there is a drawing of two strong, fat Brown hands pulling open prison bars to reveal letters that read “Conversations about: Carcerality/Punishment + Anti-Fatness, Surveillance of Bodies, Anti-Blackness + Anti-Fatness, and Transformative Justice and Fat Liberation”. Above them, block text reads “BUSTING OUT: Fat Lib and PIC Abolition.” Below, more text reads “June 2021 on @fatlibink IG Live”. In the lower left corner, there is the Fat Rose icon, a red fat fist encircled by the words “fatties against fascism: resist.”
Image 2: A square with dark blue water in the background. White text at the top reads, “Busting Out: Fat Lib and PIC Abolition Series. Anti-Blackness and Anti-Fatness, Monday, June 14 5pm PT/8pm ET @fatlibink IG Live.” There are two aqua circles at the bottom containing photos of Hunter and Da’Shaun, with their names overlapped in orange text boxes.
Image 3: A black square with a faded plume of blue smoke in the background. White text at the top reads, “Busting Out: Fat Lib and PIC Abolition Series. Carcerality, Punishment & Anti-Fatness, Tuesday, June 15 5pm PT/8pm ET @fatlibink IG Live.” There are 3 green circles at the bottom containing photos of Wendi, Mandisa and Kytara, with their names overlapped in light green text boxes.
Image 4: A black square with a purple galaxy in the background. White text at the top reads, “Busting Out: Fat Lib and PIC Abolition Series. Surveillance of Bodies, Wednesday, June 16 5pm PT/8pm ET @fatlibink IG Live.” The bottom third of the image features a yellow to red gradient. There are two red circles at the bottom containing photos of Caleb and Sonalee, with their names overlapped in yellow text boxes.
Image 5: A square with faded green pine tree leaves in the background. White text at the top reads, “Busting Out: Fat Lib and PIC Abolition Series. Transformative Justice and Fat Liberation, Thursday, June 17 5pm PT/8pm ET @fatlibink IG Live.” There are two yellow circles at the bottom containing photos of Shannon and Cory, with their names overlapped in light green text boxes.
In images 2-5, in the upper right corner, there is Fat Rose’s logo: a fat red fist surrounded by a banner reading “Fatties Against Fascism, Resist” with two roses at the base of the wrist. In the lower right corner, there is glowing red text that reads “@fatlibink”