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Fat Queer Joy: A Discussion

Status: Not Accepted

Room 327, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
Thursday, March 9, 2023
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm

 

Queer joy requires risk and trust. Trans and queer fats find joy standing in celebration with (and as witnesses for) ourselves and those like us. Join this discussion as fat queer and fat trans writers explore how to center fat queer pride, fat queer love, fat queer strength, fat queer vulnerability, fat queer empathy, fat queer kindness, fat queer friendship, fat queer adventure, fat queer laughter, fat queer trust, fat queer joy, and our queer and trans fatness on the page and in our lives.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: FAT_QUEER_JOY_OUTLINE.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

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 coeditor of Fat & Queer: An Anthology of Queer & Trans Bodies & Lives. He attended the 2021 Tin House Winter Workshop. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee for his essay, “Inventory of a Haunted House, No.4.” He is at work on his haunted memoir, Ghost Pansy.

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.

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