Category: FaT GiRL 6 — August, 1996

Cover of FaT GiRL #6, August, 1996

Margo Mercedes Rivera on why do a “Sports and Swimsuit” issue.

Table of contents page for FaT GiRL #6

Readers write in to FaT GiRL #6.

by Sondra Solo

Art by Estibaliz Sadaba

Fat activists converged at the 1996 Dirtybird Queercore Fest in San Francisco, and participated in a workshop held by Sondra Solovay and Nomy Lamm. Reportback from Candida Albicans Royale. From FaT GiRL #6, August, 1996.

A song by Lukas Blakk and the Kissing Bandits, Montreal, 1996. As seen in FaT GiRL #6, August, 1996.

“Here are some of the notes I’ve made about the similarities between being fat and bi. I don’t pre­tend that what follows is a definitive statement, I just want to get the ball rolling, and I hope that others will develop and debate some of these ideas. ” Charlotte Cooper from Fat GiRL #6, August, 1996

Charlotte Cooper poses at the beach. Photos by Susannah.

“I remember the bathtub very clearly, mostly because that’s where I was when I swiped the can of Aqua Net off the sink counter, pressed down on the button and then re-adjusted it so it would shoot into my mouth. After we left my Daddy and came into town, I became restless that way.” A story by A.M. Salt, from FaT GiRL #6, August, 1996.

Reader responses.

Leah M on childhood pleasures and the joy of fat.

Poem/story by Wolfie

Photos by Susannah and Laura Johnston.

The Kitchen Slut hosts a food fight in her back yard.

An ad for the book Zines! by V. Vale, which contains a lengthy interview with the FaT GiRL collective.

Poem by Chrystos, in memory of Terri Jewell, Winter 1995

Poetry by Margo Mercedes Rivera

Health column by Lori Ann Selke

Photos from the release party for FaT GiRL #5, taken by Jane Philomen Cleland.

A true story about gender taboos, by Judith Black.

Two collages by Freddie Baer.

Smut by Mary Frances Platt

By E. Gail Miedema

Organizations, events, zine reviews by Candida Albicans Royale, videos, books, illustrations by Marva Holmes and Buffalo Pope.

Contribor bios, FaT GiRL 6.

FaT GiRL personals

Photo by Laura Johnston

Pandoura and April in a crowd at SF Pride.