Chubster tattoos. Credit: Charlotte Cooper.
Queer means different things to different people. To queer activism is to connect with that which is subversive and breaks rules. To queer fat activism is also to relinquish the desire to be normal, respectable and polite. Queering fat activism could be about creating a non-conformist social movement where there is space for people to be different to each other and for things to emerge from that difference.
This idea inspired The Chubsters, a queer fat girl gang I established in 2003.
