Fat LGBTQ+ People

BOOKS

• Grimm, B. O., Morales, M. M., & Ferentini, T. J. (Eds.). (2021). Fat and queer: An anthology of queer and trans bodies and lives. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
• Pausé, C., Wykes, J., & Murray, S. (Eds.). (2014). Queering fat embodiment. Taylor & Francis Group.
• Whitesel, J. (2014). Fat gay men: Girth, mirth, and the politics of stigma. NYU Press.

CHAPTERS

• Davis, G. (2022). Intersexy, but fat: On the selective celebration of bodily differences. In N. L. Fischer & L. Westbrook (Eds.), Introducing the new sexuality studies: Original essays (pp. 273-281). Routledge.
• McFarland, J., Slothouber, V., & Taylor, A. (2021). Tempo-rarily fat: A queer exploration of fat time. In J. Rinaldi, M. Friedman, E. R. M. Lind, C. Kotow, & T. Tigwell (Eds.), The future is fat: Theorizing time in relation to body weight and stigma [eBook]. Routledge. 
• Slone, A., & Mitchell, A. (2002). Big fat femmes: Squeezing a lot of identity into one pair of control top nylons. In C. B. Rose & A. Camilleri (Eds.), Brazen femme: Queering femininity (pp. 103-111). Arsenal Pulp Press.
• White, F. R. (2013). No fat future? The uses of anti-social queer theory for fat activism. In E. H. Yekani, E. Kilian, & B. Michaelis (Eds.), Queer futures: Reconsidering ethics, activism, and the political (pp. 21-36). Routledge.
• White, F. R. (2021). Fat and trans: Towards a new theorization of gender in fat studies. In C. Pausé & S. R. Taylor (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of fat studies (pp. 78-87). Routledge.

ARTICLES

• Brownstone, L. M., DeRieux, J., Kelly, D. A., Sumlin, L. J., & Gaudiani, J. L. (2021). Body mass index requirements for gender-affirming surgeries are not empirically based. Transgender Health, 6(3). https://doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2020.0068
• Chalklin, V. (2016). Obstinate fatties: Fat activism, queer negativity, and the celebration of ‘obesity.’ Subjectivity, 9, 107-125. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/sub.2016.3
• Chow, J. (2021). No fats, no fems, no problems? Working out and the gay muscled body. Sexualities, 25(8), 1077-1095. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607211018331
• Cooper, C. (2012). A Queer and Trans Fat Activist Timeline: Queering fat activity nationality and cultural imperialism. Fat Studies, 1(1), 61-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2012.627503
• Gurrieri, L., & Cherrier, H. (2013). Queering beauty: fatshionistas in the fatosphere. Qualitative Market Research, 16(3), 276-295. https://doi.org/10.1108/13522751311326107
• Jonvallen, P. (2010). Sex differentiation and body fat: Local biologies and gender transgressions. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 17(4), 379-391. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506810377697
• Jordan, E. (2022). “If you don’t lose weight, the government will take you away”: An analysis of memorable messages and eating disorders in the LGBTQ+ community. Health Communication, 38(13), 2925-2935. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2126695
• Luis, K. N. (2012). Karma eaters: The politics of food and fat in women’s land communities in the United States. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 16(1), 108-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2011.605007
• McGlynn, N. (2022). ‘Fat boys make you feel thinner!’: fat GBQ men’s comfort and stigma in UK bear spaces. Gender, Place & Culture, 30(6), 867-895. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2126827
• Paine, E. A. (2021). “Fat broken arm syndrome”: Negotiating risk, stigma, and weight bias in LGBTQ healthcare. Social Science & Medicine, 270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113609
• Rinaldi, J., Friedman, M., & Jiménez, K. P. (2023). Materializing trans/fat bodies: Lessons from an arts-informed project. Excessive Bodies: A Journal of Artistic & Critical Fat Praxis and Worldmaking, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.32920/eb.v1i1.1871
• Snider, S. (2010). Revisioning fat lesbian subjects in contemporary lesbian periodicals. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 14(2-3), 174-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160903196574
• Taylor, A. (2018). “Flabulously” femme: Queer fat femme women’s identities and experiences. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 22(4), 459-481. https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2018.1449503
• White, F. R. (2012). Fat, queer, dead: ‘Obesity’ and the death drive. Somatechnics, 2(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2012.0035
• Whitesel, J., & Shuman, A. (2013). Normalizing desire: Stigma and the carnivalesque in gay bigmen’s cultural practices. Men and Masculinities, 16(4), 478-496. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X13502668

DISSERTATIONS

• Asay, J. F. (2020). Transfat representation [Master’s thesis, University of South Florida]. Digital Commons @ University of South Florida. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/9523/
• Long, H. R. (2020). “Fat is a queer issue too”: Complicating queerness and body size in women’s sexual orientation and identity (No. 27995122) [Doctoral dissertation, University of New Mexico]. UNM Digital Repository. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cj_etds/131/
• Meiller, C. E. (2021). “Now thinking about it, it’s freedom”: Conceptualizing sexual pleasure for fat, queer women [Doctoral dissertation, University of Kentucky]. UKnowledge. https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2021.266
• Rogers, J. K. (2023). Fat and queer: A qualitative exploration of womens’ experiences of fatphobia [Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University Carbondale]. Open SIUC. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/2160/
• Taylor, A. E. (2022). Fattening queer femininities: The pitfalls, politics, and promises of queer fat femme embodiments [Doctoral dissertation, York University]. YorkSpace. https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/a4cd2ff8-05aa-4d0c-9faa-d48540f13a2b

POPULAR PRESS

• Bergman, S. B. (2021). Please come and be fat. Medium. https://medium.com/@sbearbergman/please-come-and-be-fat-cc04ed4d8772
• Morabito, C. (2017, September 5). Coming out as queer is even more complicated for a fat person. Everyday feminism. https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/09/queer-fat-person-complicated/