In December of 2004, Fatshionista
was founded by Amanda Piasecki as a community on LiveJournal , with this
mandate: "Welcome, fatshionistas! Here we will discuss the ins
and outs of fat
fashions, seriously and stupidly -- but above all -- standing tall, and
with panache. We fatshionistas are self-accepting despite The Man's
Saipan-made boot at our chubby, elegant throats. We are silly, and
serious, and want shit to fit."
Functioning as a broadly inclusive (and occasionally contentious)
space for discussing the intersections of fat politics and fat
fashions, Fatshionista's LiveJournal community has since grown to include over 2500 members.
Fatshionista.com is intended as an extension of that community, meant
to recapture the best of the LiveJournal content by presenting smart
writing on fat and by engaging a
broader web-based community of Fatshionistas to educate themselves,
deconstruct cultural assumptions, and demand respect for their choices and their bodies, as well as
fabulous clothing that is well-made, well-fitted, and widely
accessible. Fatshionistas are fat, and loud, and not sorry.
This site
is beginning with the launch of the GroupBlog (which you are reading now), which has some amazing contributors signed on already, but there are Big Plans
in the works for many more fat fashion tools and resources as time goes on.
As always, we represent a prickly, political, diverse, fat-positive,
anti-racist, disabled-friendly, trans-inclusive, queer-flavored,
non-gender-specific community, open to everyone.
Welcome to Fatshionista.com!
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