NOLOSE!!!! WOO HOO!!! I'm so excited!

[femmeboy]

Note:  I posted this to the facebooks because I have a wider audience there at this point, but I wanted to share this here as well, for those who didn't get to see it, and for those who are more comfortable responding here.

Oh. Wait. The Gender Policy. Once again, I have to decide whether it's appropriate for me to be in this space. Not because

Comments

[frankiejlh]

You know you want to go to the Rad Fattie conference, don't you?

Yes.

I have more to say about this, someday - but in the meantime, the glib encapsulation is this: pretty much the only thing that gives me mixed feelings about transition* is that there appears to be a comparative vacuum of fat positivity - and general body-variety positivity - outside the overlap of fat+queer+women**. There's some, certainly, especially in the Bay Area, but I don't see a well-organized effort at the same scale; people are more on their own in the great toxic meme stew. One hopes I'm just missing something.

*such as it is. I think I mean specifically not identifying as a woman per se, plus physical transition. The combination of the two.

**read: SOME women. If any trans woman gets attitude at this conference, its vaunted supportiveness as an institution becomes a myth.

[biggreenbeacon]

How did it go?

[femmeboy]

The gender policy? They eliminated it. The new policy says, in part, that "anyone aiming to help create a queer, fat positive, anti-racist, anti-ableist, anti-ageist, anti-classist, anti-colonialist, feminist space will be welcome at NOLOSE." The full document is at nolose.org. It's very well done.