Tuesday, January 29, 2008

fat love & other beautiful things


looking for some body love? check out not sorry! distro for issues of Fat Girl as well as other body positive zines. an excerpt from the catalog regarding FG (#11):
Fat Girl is a beautiful zine featuring personal experiences and musings on being a fat girl. Each issue is bound like a little art book and features loads of Nicci's drawings of fat girl bodies. Each page is clearly an artistic process to be savored. In this issue, Nicci blasts the media's new claims that fat is contagious; she questions the meaning of beauty; she breaks down her family's struggles with body-hatred whether they be fat or thin and lastly, she acknowledges the power of constant visibility and taking advantage of that.
thanks, jenny! xox.

you can also find a selection of buttons and patches over @ not sorry! distro on the crafts page, including an awesome button by kate black that reads "diets make you pissy." i know i'm going to have to pick that one up!

another friendly place on the internet to play is pony boy press, hosted by the awesome krissy. you can find her zines on etsy. if you haven't yet, please check out figure 8. you will not be disappointed by her informative body positive zine!

if you really want to find a zine, on a variety of topics including body image/body love, don't hesitate to check out sweet candy distro where you will find comics, crafts, buttons, perzines, art zines, literary zines, family friendly zines, diy zines, and just about anything else you can think of that's done well! sage writes a review for every zine in her catalogue, and keeps track of shipped orders & new/restocks to her catalog via a community on LJ called the candy cluster. she also has a presence on etsy.




as you may have noticed from the graphics accompanying this post, fat girl is available in a gift pack of issues #1-13, containing all the fatty goodness you could want, and then some. check it out over on etsy. be on the lookout for issues #14 and #15, and please consider submitting. there is an open and ongoing call for art and writing, should you feel inclined to answer it! submissions should be e-mailed.

if you're looking for a prompt before you submit, FG#15 is about throwing out our scales, and recognizing internal cues rather than external ones--literally throwing out that which shames/controls and/or negatively affects our personal space. #14 is still in process--it's not too late to submit! so far in this issue: artwork by nicci, artwork by ang, writing on food/food love and writing about medication and depression on body image and body size.