F217.
Fat, Trans & Queer: Growing a Writing Community & Lifting Voices
Friday, March 25, 2022
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
As queer lives take focus in life and in literature, fat queer/trans voices remain relegated to the shadows. This discussion, led by established and emerging writers, explores the challenges and rewards of writing while fat, crafting fat characters, and exploring fat queer/trans love, sex, anger, and joy. This session offers ways to transform negative fat and queer/trans narratives into positive ones and celebrate illuminating examples of fat and queer/trans literature and resources.
This virtual discussion room will take place live and will not be recorded for on-demand viewing.
Participants
Miguel M. Morales grew up in Texas working as a migrant/seasonal farmworker. A Lambda Literary Fellow and alum of VONA/Voices and the Macondo Writers workshop, his work appears in several anthologies and literary journals. He is coeditor of the Pulse/Pulso anthology and of the Fat & Queer anthology.
Bruce Owens Grimm is a queer ghost nerd based in Chicago. He is a coeditor of Fat & Queer: An Anthology of Queer & Trans Bodies & Lives. He attended the 2021 Tin House Winter Workshop and taught his "Haunted Memoir" workshop at Story Studio Chicago and the Desert Nights, Rising Stars Conference.
Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini is an associate editor at Kodansha Comics and marketing manager for Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan. Their writing has appeared in the Gambler, Off the Rocks: The LGBTQ Anthology of Newtown Writers Press, and Songs of My Selfie: An Anthology of Millennial Writing.
