Honestly, it wasn’t until I saw other fat femmes looking amazing and happy in dresses that I started to look at myself and realize that my discomfort was internal, not physical. Valerie: It took me a long time to realize that my discomfort in dresses wasn’t because of my body image issues. Like, when I think about my relationship to my body, my fatness, my queerness, my femmeness… it’s the other fat femmes I saw around me who made me able to even see myself at all, let alone see myself as hot and fashionable. Vanessa: Firstly, I have to thank fat femmes who paved the way. How do you connect to your femme identity through clothes that are for fat people?Īlso, this is our last chat! So I thought we could use this time to dish on all the fun, flirty things we wear that help us feel our most gay and powerful, so you have to drop photos of when you felt your dykiest! Shelli Nicole: Mama was their icon you hear me?!ĭani Janae: I often wonder how other femmes connect with - or project - queerness through their fashion choices. Shelli Nicole: I do agree with the shift but for a long time it def felt like queer girl fashion meant whatever Shane was wearing.ĭani Janae: Shane was the blueprint for the girls! It has definitely shifted but for a long time, queer fashion was considered to be androgynous stuff which was often only made for very straight-sized, thin people.
Welcome back to The Fat Femme Fashion series! A 4-part series of roundtables, where four Autostraddle writers talk about how being fat affects the clothes we wore in the past, and the clothes we wear today.ĭani Janae: Let’s talk about connecting to your queerness through fashion. The 200 Best Lesbian, Bisexual & Queer Movies Of All Time.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.Davies, Nicola Shindler, and Louise Pedersen on behalf of All3 Media International, which distributes the format and the original British series produced by Red Productions for Channel 4. Writer Jaclyn Moore serves as executive producer, along with Lee Eisenberg, Emily Brecht, original British series creator Russell T. We have a new story,” Dunn said of the reimagining. “We had to break new ground in order to tell the story and to make it relevant because we have our own generation’s things to say. Real-life Pulse survivors served as consultants on the series. The “inherently political” “Queer as Folk” centers on a Pulse-like nightclub shooting in a New Orleans gay bar and captures how the LGBTQ+ community rebuilds itself. We rarely get to see those people depicted in a way that includes their flaws.” We’ve had so many anti-heroes, but we rarely get to see the kind of diversity that we have in this show. We want to let them do that because that’s what we let Don Draper and Tony Soprano do. “None of our characters are perfect and they’re constantly shifting and making difficult, selfish decisions or mistakes. “The show is going to be divisive - and it has to be,” creator Dunn told The Hollywood Reporter.
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