Guest Post: Possibilities and Limitations of #Subversion through Fa(t)shion » Sociological Images
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When Jessie Dress of Austin, Texas started the project Fa(t)shion February for Femmes and Friends, she was responding to what she perceived as a gap in the online community celebrating “fatshion,” or fashion for fat-identified people. She explains, “I don’t feel like the fatshion blogs I see really represent the kind of radical queer fashion that I’m into and that feels like my community.” Jessie committed to posting “outfits of the day” (OOTD) every day in February. Her intention was to celebrate and draw attention to three kinds of politicized fashion projects – first, fatshion; second, the fashion of femme-identified queers; and finally, the #fashion of allies of both fat and femme-identified people.