Fat RoseCherry Midnight and Max Airborne share and preserve the powerful origin story of the term “superfat,” a term first popularized at NOLOSE in 2008 during […]
Category: Fat Roots
Fat Roots: Eric Garner
The state is careless with our breath. The state colludes to rob citizens of it — both through violence and negligence. There is so much […]
Fat Roots: Stacey Milbern
Our friend Stacey Park Milbern lived a vanguard life. While we never heard her espouse Marxist views on revolutionary vanguardism, she lived her life in […]
Fat Roots: Fannie Lou Hamer
As we continue to highlight our #FatElders and ancestors in the movement for liberation, today we honor Fannie Lou Hamer. Painting by Isicera Dew, text […]
Fat Roots: Sonya Renee Taylor
Sonya Renee Taylor is a fat, queer, Black woman from the US who lives in New Zealand. She is a powerhouse, a poet, and a […]
Fat Roots: Emmett Everett
Max AirborneAs climate catastrophe intensifies, and we work to keep our people alive, the ways that fat hatred, ableism and racism kill become clearer. It’s so […]
Fat Roots: Margo Rivera-Weiss
We begin our Fat Roots project by honoring our dear friend Margo Rivera-Weiss. Margo is a fat queer Latinx Jewish artist living in Oakland. Margo […]