Category: Zines

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.

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

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 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.