FemmeCast: Episodes

How do you take weight loss goals out of diet and exercise?

Tara, our fatshion and beauty expert, combines forces with Zoe's social justice and Bevin's hosting skills for a two part round table--first on the debate of "good fats" versus "bad fats" in the fat activist movement and second on what to do with your "skinny clothes".

We debut a track from Kelli Dunham's new cd Almost Pretty. Buy it, NOW!

Bevin has an impromptu interview with Indie Grass Tranny Rockstars Actor Slash Model and we hear a song from their cd Cheap Date.

Megan reports in from San Francisco about the wonders of Vitamins D and B.

Genne invites Glenn Marla, NYC's hottest fat go go boy and fashion and style icon, to participate in our self-help segment seeking a harm reduction approach to loving your body.

We welcome back Marilyn Wann, author of Fat?So! and a board member of NAAFA regarding weight loss surgery in the fat activist movement.

Zoe, our consigliere and social justice correspondent, weighs in on the matter. She's also a board member of NOLOSE, a conference happening September 26-28.

We also hear from Angela, a Southern Belle, who, when I asked if she identified as a queer fat femme said "It's complicated." We talk about her experience with lap band surgery and her feelings about fatness.

News & Announcements:
Femmes of Power, out now in the UK! Out soon in the US! My interview with Ulrika Dahl, one of the authors, forthcoming!

The Butch-Femme.com Bash!, Oakland, CA. Bevin, our hostess, is performing on Friday night, October 10.

Get involved with your local Femme Group!
Fat Femme Mafia, Toronto, ON, Canada
Femme Mafia ATL, Atlanta, GA
Femme Mafia MKE, Milwaukee, WI
Femme Mafia Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN
FAG PDX, Portland, OR
Queer Fat Femme LA, Los Angeles, CA

What we're listening to:

Actor Slash Model
Candye Kane, Queer Fat Femme Superstar! Go buy all of her albums!
Jonny McGovern is Keeping it Faggity. Get it on itunes!

Stay tuned for our next episode, FEMME SHARKS, coming soon!

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A between episodes morsel to whet your femme whistle.

Anna is in the woods and didn't finish editing Episode 4 before she left. We'll have it out mid-August. In the meantime, Bevin uses her limited technical skills to piece together a 15 minute frolic about what it means to be a "Fat Girl on the Inside".

Featuring outtakes from her Celebration of Personhood Party (party in lieu of a wedding and instead of couplehood).

Introducing Bryn, Heather and featuring our Sexpert, Rachael, dressing down a butch for saying something sexist.

We discuss Glenn Marla's movement "That's the fattest thing you've done/said all day."

And a special performance of Fat Bottom Girls on the ukelele by Megan, our Hippie Woo Woo correspondent.

Hope you enjoy this morsel and stay tuned for the next real episode!!

News & Announcements:
Chunky Dunk, Portland, OR, Every Sunday in August except the 17!


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The first ingredient in Queer Fat Femme is self-esteem.

Naima, our cultural correspondent, reviews Mo'Nique's "Fat Chance".

Tara, our fatshion and beauty expert, suggests trying a bikini, avoiding capris and the pompabang.

The Toronto Fat Femme Mafia fat girls in bikinis video, as featured on the Rosie blog!

Kelli Dunham talks about being fired for having too much self-esteem. Buy her new cd, Almost Pretty, or book her on her Almost Pretty, Almost 50 states tour. Clickie.

Christine De La Rosa, a founder of the Femme Conference and one of the co-chairs, talks to me about her aha self-esteem moment and this year's Femme Conference, August 15-17 in Chicago--register now!!

Rachael, our sexpert, gives us a good primer on rejection.

Glenn Marla declares that there is no wrong way to have a body.


News & Announcements:
Spilling Over Anthology, Deadline for Submissions, December, 2008.

The Fat Experience Project.

What we're listening to:

OMG Michelle (Go download their song on itunes!)
Gravy Train
Bitch and the Exciting Conclusion

Stay tuned for our next episode, Health at Any Size, coming soon!

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Bevin discusses her plans for a Scoundrel Seek and Destroy Device with Dan Savage on the Savage LoveCast!

Episode 88

Starting about 18 minutes in, he bills it as "How can a lesbian swirling in lesbian psychodrama develop a bionic bullshit detector?"

His insight to be incorporated into the forthcoming episode on liars and the lies they tell.

Episode 3: Self-Esteem is in the cooker. Anna is putting her final touches on it now!

In our second episode we have a Queer Fat Femme how-to guide to break-ups.

I introduce our first installment from Self-Help correspondent, Genne. She might give you an essay prompt if you ask her for advice (this can be a good thing).

Brian, our Big Gay Agenda Correspondent takes laughing through the pain to a new and useful level.
Brian's Benrik Blog Archive
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Tara, our fatshion and beauty expert, is opinionated about hair cuts.

Try my stylist, Carla. She will tell you if someone is too crazy to date.

Zoe has 30 tips to get through the first blinding weeks of heartbreak.

Naima suggests the following to help your heartbreak:

Dogfight
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Love and Rockets comics
If Love is a Red Dress (Hang me in Rags)


Axon D'Luxe, queer femme performance artist, breaks her femme cock.

Kelli uses her ex for comedy. (What else are you going to do after someone eats vegan tofu on rice cakes?)

Rachael and I talk about break-up hunting live from her bed.

I discuss "What Would Joan Collins Do?" live from Heavy, Glenn Marla's performance series in NYC.


News & Announcements:
Fat Femme Mafia, Clothing Swap, June 15, 2008, Toronto, ON, Canada

Kelli Dunham's Upcoming Gigs, Mostly in the South.

Rad Fat Philly, email radfatphilly at lists.riseup.net, Philadelphia, PA

Become part of Femme Mafia International!!, Anywhere you've got more than one femme in a room, THE WORLD

What we're listening to:

The Gossip! (We heart Beth Ditto, Queer Fat Femme hero and fashion diva.)
Athens Boys Choir
Basement Jaxx

Stay tuned for our next episode, Self-Esteem: Learning to Love Yourself, coming soon!

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In our premier episode we discuss the myriad Queer Fat Femme identities from goddesses to Deep Lez to faggy femmey masculinity.

I introduce (most of) our regular correspondents.

Tara is excited about cardigans and cautiously optimistic about high waisted bottoms.

Naima reviews Battlestar Galactica and Torchwood.

Zoe discusses why Fat is not the "last socially acceptable oppression" and intersectionality, as discussed here and here by our own Tara.

Rachael and I talk about the 21st century portal to the sexual universe.

Zoe and I interview veteran fat activist Marilyn Wann at the Fat and Queer Conference in New York City.

Her favorite Fat Activist resources for burgeoning rad fatties:

Our podcast! Subscribe here
Her book! Fat?So!: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size
Shadow on a Tight Rope
Size Queen Zine
Fat Girl Zine
Fatshionista Livejournal Community
Fat news with Big Fat Blog
Make NAAFA suck less


News & Announcements:
Femme Conference, August 15-17, 2008, Chicago, IL

NOLOSE Conference, September 26-28, 2008, Northampton, MA

Femme Mafia Second Saturday Series, May 10, 2008, Atlanta, GA

WTFTM Podcast, FTM news + culture + commentary

What we're listening to:

Scream Club!
Dave End
Nervous But Excited

Stay tuned for our next episode, Break-ups, coming soon!

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The first podcast, on the topic "The Queer Fat Femme", is set to release any day now!!