unusual_suspect
30-08-2009, 09:45 PM
Time for some activism, if you have had enough of body facism and want to do your part for sustainable food there is an excellent harvest festival coming up in London with a fat queer sensibility.
This is what they have to say about it.
"London's fat queers and their pals are coming together to challenge the greed of the diet industry and body fascism within the gay community by producing a food festival that celebrates body diversity.
The Fat of the Land: A Queer Chub Harvest Festival is a DIY food fest, synthesizing interest in slow food, recession-busting, sustainable food, 'make-and-do' and craft culture with a fat queer sensibility. It is intended as a secular fat queerifying of a traditional harvest gathering, and the organizers positively welcome multicultural interpretations of the theme.
The Fat of the Land is child friendly and open to people of all sizes and sexualities.
It will feature:
• Activities: crafting, traditional games, competitions for best jam, best chutney, best cake, best produce, best vegetable monster and more - bring your best home-made efforts
• Stalls, refreshments, and information about Health At Every Size
• Art: Allyson Mitchell's grotto will be open for visits
• Evening Performance: including a group rendition of The Fat Queer Harvest Hymn, written especially for the event, and special surprise act by Chopin Gard
Visitors are encouraged to bring along a tin of unwanted food to be donated to a prominent diet guru – the respondent will be chosen on the day.
The Fat of the Land as a celebration of the abundance of harvest time and our connection to the rhythms of nature and creativity, albeit executed in our own idiosyncratic, outsider, warped, prankish, punk, 21st century, Wicker Man style.
It is a defiant celebration of abundance and plenty amidst a 'healthy living' agenda in the UK that is often reductionist, fatphobic and mean, and is thus health-enhancing for people of all sizes."
How is that helping, well it's certainly a depature from the staus quo and it's certainly different, it is subversive and looks like a lot of fun. They are also looking for volunteers. Check out their blog: http://queerchub.blogspot.com/
This is what they have to say about it.
"London's fat queers and their pals are coming together to challenge the greed of the diet industry and body fascism within the gay community by producing a food festival that celebrates body diversity.
The Fat of the Land: A Queer Chub Harvest Festival is a DIY food fest, synthesizing interest in slow food, recession-busting, sustainable food, 'make-and-do' and craft culture with a fat queer sensibility. It is intended as a secular fat queerifying of a traditional harvest gathering, and the organizers positively welcome multicultural interpretations of the theme.
The Fat of the Land is child friendly and open to people of all sizes and sexualities.
It will feature:
• Activities: crafting, traditional games, competitions for best jam, best chutney, best cake, best produce, best vegetable monster and more - bring your best home-made efforts
• Stalls, refreshments, and information about Health At Every Size
• Art: Allyson Mitchell's grotto will be open for visits
• Evening Performance: including a group rendition of The Fat Queer Harvest Hymn, written especially for the event, and special surprise act by Chopin Gard
Visitors are encouraged to bring along a tin of unwanted food to be donated to a prominent diet guru – the respondent will be chosen on the day.
The Fat of the Land as a celebration of the abundance of harvest time and our connection to the rhythms of nature and creativity, albeit executed in our own idiosyncratic, outsider, warped, prankish, punk, 21st century, Wicker Man style.
It is a defiant celebration of abundance and plenty amidst a 'healthy living' agenda in the UK that is often reductionist, fatphobic and mean, and is thus health-enhancing for people of all sizes."
How is that helping, well it's certainly a depature from the staus quo and it's certainly different, it is subversive and looks like a lot of fun. They are also looking for volunteers. Check out their blog: http://queerchub.blogspot.com/