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Susan Stinson interviews Judith Stein and Meridith Lawrence in 1995. Includes Judith Steins reflections in 2021.
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V. Vale interviewed members of the collective that produced the zine FaT GiRL and published it in Zines! Vol. 1, by V/Search (formerly Re/Search) publications. June, 1996.
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Students from the University of East London made a zine to offer a fat-positive perspective in response to the school’s Obesity Awareness Week in March, 2007.

On February 1, 1981 two members of The Second Wave collective interviewed ReaRae Sears and Judith Stein, two Boston feminists active in the Fat Liberation movement. This is an edited excerpt from that interview.
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A podcast that brings insights from disabled scholars, activists, artists, and allies in disability and mad studies from around the world. Episode 10 (December 2019) welcomes disabled fat queer activist and artist Tracy Tidgwell.
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Fat Fuck, a play by Sondra Solovay and Timnah Steinman, Script from the play performed at LadyFest NYC in 2002.

Fat Fuck, a play by Sondra Solovay and Timnah Steinman. From a performance at nolose, 2003.

Event program for Fat Fuck, a play by Sondra Solovay and Timnah Steinman, as performed at LadyFest East in NYC, September 21, 2002.

Issue #6 of FaT GiRL: the zine for fat dykes and the women who want them. August, 1996

poem by Judith Stein, 1985

“I try to remember that the truth is that the world is too small. It is the world which is too full of narrow aisles, narrow chairs, narrow people who never talk loud, whose hands rest quietly in their laps as they speak in demure voices…” by Judith Stein, 1983.
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Songs performed at “An Evening of Fat Women’s Culture”
April 19, 1980, New Haven, Connecticut
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An autobiographical queer zine, stories from Charlotte Cooper’s life told through otherworldly encounters with wild animals.

Fat Activist Vernacular, a fat queer feminist glossary, is a powerful and witty exploration of fat as a cultural, social and political experience. By Charlotte Cooper.

Plump the Post! is a raucous interruption of correspondence art’s “business as usual.” It’s a mail art intervention that centers and celebrates fat queer iconography.

Event programme from The Fat of The Land: A Queer Chub Harvest Festival, which took place in London, October, 2009.

By Judith Stein. 1980.
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Issue #7 of FaT GiRL: the zine for fat dykes and the women who want them. May, 1997.

Size Queen: for queen size queers and our loyal subjects. June, 2005

Fat Queer Community Heart Circle & Potluck Brunch, Oakland, CA
September 24, 2011

Present-day obsessions lead to memories of childhood indoctrination into fat-hating culture. A look at Foucault’s panopticism, internalized surveillance, and fat hatred in modern society. Comic by Max Airborne, 2019.

An ended friendship triggers memories of life as a queer fat kid in a psychiatric institution, and pocket-sized tools of resistance in desperate times. Comic by Max Airborne, 2019

A movie about nuns and a writing assignment lead into childhood memories of being locked up in psychiatric institution, forced starvation dieting, the sad refuge of a can of TAB diet soft drink. Comic by Max Airborne, 2003.

Includes “Fat Mutual Aid,” by Max Airborne, “Pod Mapping for Mutual Aid,” by Rebel Sidney Black,  a Pod Mapping Template from BATJC and a few illustrations by Max Airborne. 2021

Zine by nomy lamm, 1994. Includes nomy’s 2022 reflections as an introduction, and a 2022 audio recording of a song from the zine.
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A zine by participants of the Fat Performance DIY Workshop, London, March, 2021
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A 2014 community survey about media literacy for fat activists. By Charlotte Cooper
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A multi-dimensional project concerned with documenting queer and trans fat feminist community histories and memories. Charlotte Cooper, 2010

This guide explores Live Art Development Agency’s holdings on fat and Live Art. It’s also about what it’s like to be in the space whilst fat and about finding hidden knowledge. 2021 by Charlotte Cooper.
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This zine accompanied a performance by Charlotte Cooper at the Wellcome Collection museum in London in 2016.