I Think You Will Like This: Fat Women of Color
Added 2020-09-18 07:10:01 +0000 UTCOver on Instagram, I've been sharing some accounts and creators who brighten up my feed with their creativity and just generally make the world a little better with their contributions. I'll doing a little cross-posting here, so you folks don't miss out. Check them out, give ‘em a follow, patronize their endeavors if it’s an option!
Today: Fat Women of Color
Website: https://fatwomenofcolor.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fatwomenofcolor
This account does not just showcase fat women of color, it celebrates them. Some photos are joyful, some bold, some tender, some fierce. These women are not passive subjects for the viewer to consume and move on from. They radiate their individual personalities, their humanity. The viewer feels what the women feel, because they are in control of the photo, they are the driving force. The audience is not voyeuristically peeking at them, they are actively presenting themselves to capture the viewer’s attention.
In a society that has elevated white and thin and gender-conforming as our beauty ideal and the only kind of body worthy of being glorified in the media, simply existing in a body other than that is a radical act. To live in an othered body and to actively take up space, to draw attention to that body, to share the joy and pride and vulnerability and strength, to share that humanity?
That is an act of defiance, an act of activism.
It shouldn’t be.
But it is.
The photos collected by Fat Women of Color unites the pictured women and the viewer, they show us our shared humanity.
Comments
Drop us an email! matthewdanielnolan@gmail.com & erika.moen@gmail.com =D -Matt
Erika Moen
2020-09-24 19:10:51 +0000 UTCI has the pix. How do I get them to you?
SheepDog45
2020-09-23 00:22:52 +0000 UTCLOLOL No! Although I've chatted with the creators a couple times and they're lovely, I'd love to get a guest comic out of them for OJST ;D Would you be willing to send me a photo of the letter from issue 30? And, dare I dream, from the other issue that had a mention in the letter column, if you remember which one it was? NO WORRIES if you don't have the time or energy or whatever! I'm just tryin' my luck /:)
Erika Moen
2020-09-21 17:34:36 +0000 UTCHey Erica, you got another shout-out in the letter column of Sex Criminals # 30! Did they ever call you about doing a cover?
SheepDog45
2020-09-21 16:12:58 +0000 UTCI would love to hang out with these beautiful women. I feel like these pictures reflect their charisma and personality. <3
Kielo Maria Maja
2020-09-18 10:44:01 +0000 UTCThat last one with the gold leaf is amazing!
Amyphist
2020-09-18 07:15:42 +0000 UTC
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