Hot & Heavy Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love & Fashion

by Tovar, Virgie

• ISBN13: 9781580054386
• ISBN10: 1580054382
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-10-16
• Publisher: Seal Press

Summary

Celebrates Hate Loss, not Weight Loss

Author Biography

Virgie Tovar is a San Francisco-based fat activist and sexologist. After receiving a bachelor's degree in political science at U.C. Berkeley, she was offered admission to the only human sexuality master's program in the U.S., housed at San Francisco State University. She completed research for her master's thesis on the subject of fat women and femininity in 2011. Tovar is a certified sex educator who has performed research for the Center for Court Innovation in New York, worked for the National Sexuality Resource Center and is currently a contributor for Good Vibrations Magazine, where she writes on the intersections of body image and sexuality. In collaboration with organizations including the GLBT Historical Society, Tovar has brought events focused on fat activism and positivity to the Bay Area in hopes of ending the official and unofficial War on Obesity.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Life
Shiny, Sparkly Things	p. 13
Fat at the Gym	p. 20
Public Stretch Mark Announcement	p. 25
Take off the Damn Shoe!	p. 32
To be Seen	p. 37
Truce	p. 42
I Came to Femme through Fat and Black	p. 48
Fat Histories, Fat Futures	p. 52
Hey Sisters, Welcome to My World	p. 65
Big Yoga Student	p. 71
Like a Tiara	p. 75
Elephants Never Forget	p. 82
No Really, It isn't Me. It's you	p. 88
Love
The Fat Queen of Speed Dating	p. 96
BBW Party	p. 101
2Fat2Fuck	p. 109
Dear Sweet Body	p. 118
Voluptuous Life	p. 121
Women with Big Bellies	p. 126
Journeying into a Fat, Fleshy Vulva	p. 132
Fat on the Beach: A Mother's Battle Cry	p. 138
Fat Sex Works!	p. 144
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Fat	p. 152
Inside Out	p. 160
Pecan Pie, Sex, and Other Revolutionary Things	p. 167
Fashion
Blue Pants	p. 180
On Dressing Up: A Story of Fashion Resistance	p. 189
Who Wears Short Shorts?	p. 195
Something Fabulous to Wear	p. 202
Flagrantly Fat and Fucking Fabulous	p. 208
10 Tips from a New York Fatshionista	p. 213
Epilogue	p. 228
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