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10 Aug

The Fat Zine’s recent calendar celebrates beautiful fat bodies

The Fat Zine’s recent calendar celebrates beautiful fat bodies
The Fat Zine, a publication founded by photographer and artist Chloe Sheppard and author Gina Tonic, has released a calendar celebrating fat-positivity. Founded earlier this yr, The Fat Zine is an ode to the great thing about fat bodies, and explores the nuances of what it means to be a fat person in 2020.  “It becomes quite tiring seeing people who find themselves a size 12 bend over to create rolls then post about it on social media and get celebrated for being ‘authentic’,” Sheppard told Dazed Beauty on its release back in March. “To make this zine which calls that stuff out, and is an area where fat people really will be whatever they wish to be, felt necessary, and...
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8 Aug

Gina Tonic is the author and editor empowering a

Gina Tonic is the author and editor empowering a
The Dazed Beauty Community is our ever-expanding encyclopaedia of creatives and emerging talent from internationally who're redefining the way in which we take into consideration beauty. From supermodels to digital artists to makeup prodigies transforming themselves of their bedrooms, these are the sweetness influencers of tomorrow who embody every thing Dazed Beauty is about. Discover them here. The ability of piece of writing is unmatched, in any case the pen is mightier than the sword, right? Wielding her pen – or more likely her fingers on the keys of her laptop – is author, editor, and legend Gina Tonic, who has penned pieces around mental health, sex, and being fat for a wide range of titles including Dazed Beauty (which you'll...
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28 Jul

The Fat Zine’s latest calendar celebrates beautiful fat bodies

The Fat Zine’s recent calendar celebrates beautiful fat bodies
The Fat Zine, a publication founded by photographer and artist Chloe Sheppard and author Gina Tonic, has released a calendar celebrating fat-positivity. Founded earlier this 12 months, The Fat Zine is an ode to the great thing about fat bodies, and explores the nuances of what it means to be a fat person in 2020.  “It becomes quite tiring seeing people who find themselves a size 12 bend over to create rolls then post about it on social media and get celebrated for being ‘authentic’,” Sheppard told Dazed Beauty on its release back in March. “To make this zine which calls that stuff out, and is an area where fat people really might be whatever they need to be, felt necessary,...
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11 Jul

Performance artist Scottee: we want to quit fat shaming

Performance artist Scottee: we want to quit fat shaming
To mark the opening of his performance piece Fat Blokes, British performance artist Scottee explains why he’s fat-igued with body shaming I grew up in Kentish Town in North London, now the house of bouji 20-somethings hooked on kombucha. Back then, within the early noughties, it was the fifteenth most deprived area of the country, with child poverty at 40.3%. I used to be certainly one of those kids. I grew up poor and in social housing. I used to be the kid and grandchild of Irish migrants who consequently of poverty, social exclusion and trauma lived with tricky relationships with food, booze and medicines. I adopted a few of their addictions and...
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