I'm running a Q&A entitled "Fat Positive and Poly Without Drama" at the NAAFA convention next week (August 10-14, near the SF airport).
One of the questions I promised to cover was "how to meet fat-positive poly people", and to that end I've been looking for mailing lists and LiveJournal communities for fat + poly people.
I've only found one (polypaganbbw, a yahoo group) - well, I found another one on Yahoo called bbw_polyamory, but you seem to have to be a member of the group to even look at the group's info page. The only LJ community I found that was even remotely associated was
alternacurves, but that seems more associated with the alternative music scene than the alternative [*kof*] lifestyle scene. I've found fat + sex groups but that's not really what I'm looking for.
Of course I know that there are many fat-positive people in the poly communities at large, as well as many poly-positive people in the fat communities. So of course fat + poly groups aren't the only way to meet fat + poly-positive people.
But if you know of any such groups I'd be really grateful to hear about them!
One of the questions I promised to cover was "how to meet fat-positive poly people", and to that end I've been looking for mailing lists and LiveJournal communities for fat + poly people.
I've only found one (polypaganbbw, a yahoo group) - well, I found another one on Yahoo called bbw_polyamory, but you seem to have to be a member of the group to even look at the group's info page. The only LJ community I found that was even remotely associated was
alternacurves, but that seems more associated with the alternative music scene than the alternative [*kof*] lifestyle scene. I've found fat + sex groups but that's not really what I'm looking for.Of course I know that there are many fat-positive people in the poly communities at large, as well as many poly-positive people in the fat communities. So of course fat + poly groups aren't the only way to meet fat + poly-positive people.
But if you know of any such groups I'd be really grateful to hear about them!
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Yeah if you came for Friday or Saturday and just did the dance, it would be $35, but that's not pocket change.
Tell me what you need. I'll even be happy to shamelessly shill on saturday (ooh, how alliterative!) if my Fat Sex panel doesn't get my ass banned from the con... :P
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I tweak your theory slightly: Once you've found something about yourself that's important enough for you to join groups about it, the culture of the group will encourage you to dig out other self-identities that match those of some other people in the group.
I think some people go on to look for other self-identities on their own, but group culture better explains, IMO, the phenomenon of "Hi, I'm yet another queer poly kinky pagan fat grrrrl."