Happy Pride Month! Here’s a fat LGBTQ+ reading list I’ve compiled! 🏳️🌈💜🏳️⚧️
Books
Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives edited by Bruce Owens Grimm, Miguel M. Morales, and Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini
What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Fat by Aubrey Gordon
Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma by Jason Whitesel
The Other F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce by Angie Manfredi
Nothing Is Okay Poems by Rachel Wiley
Catrachos by Roy G. Guzmán
Wow, No Thank You. Essays by Samantha Irby
Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers edited by Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton
Speaking Wiri Wiri by Dan Vera
Fiction
I’ll Be The One by Lyla Lee
Putting Makeup On The Fat Boy by Bil Wright
Soft On Soft by Em Ali
Faith: Taking Flight by Julie Murphy
If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann
Here The Whole Time by Vitor Martins
Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
Untouchable by Talia Hibbert
A Harvest Of Ripe Figs by Shira Glassman
Private Eye (The Spies Who Loved Her) by Katrina Jackson
Three romance/erotica novellas by Xan West:
Nine Of Swords, Reversed, Eight Kinky Nights: An F/f Chanukah Romance, Their Troublesome Crush
Xan’s work centers kinky, trans and non-binary, fat, disabled, queer trauma survivors. It leans more towards centering Jewish characters, ace and aro spec characters, autistic characters, and polyamorous networks.
Featured list from LGBTQ reads: Sapphic Plus-Size Protagonists!
The Summer of Jordi Perez by Amy Spalding
Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
Bearly a Lady by Cassandra Khaw
The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember
Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman
Final Draft by Riley Redgate
Articles
Being Queer When You're Fat, Femme and Gaysian by Mark Mariano
Black, Fat Queer Bodies: Receiving Pleasure And Demanding Respect by Darian
Cool People I Know: Fat Folks in Kink on Fashion, Femme, and Community by Shaan Lashun
CLAIMING MY NON-BINARY IDENTITY by Madeleine
How I Navigate Masculinity as a Fat Queer Woman by Hannah Schneider
Proudly Black, Fat, Queer and Making a Home for Myself in Cosplay by Briana Lawrence
Interview: Out Of The Closet With ‘Plus Size Trans Guy’, Shane Stinson by DapperQ
What it’s like being Fat, Queer, and Asexual by Michael Paramo
How Being Plus Size Affects Presenting As Non-Binary by Gina Tonic
I Am The Plus-size Transfemme You Stared At For Too Long. by Rori Porter
Mixed-Race, Non-Binary, Queer Fat Femme: How I Fail and Succeed in Finding Liberation by Cicely Blain
I’m Fat and Gay. Here’s What I’ve Learned. by Sean Bennett
What It’s Like to Be A Fat Black Queer Femme— With Cancer by Taylor Crumpt
A Brief History Of The Gay Bears And Big Boys Scene by Gay Star News
The Fat, Black, Femme, Queer Chronicles by Tina Colleen
Dissertations
"Fat is a Queer Issue, Too": Complicating Queerness and Body Size in Women's Sexual Orientation and Identity by Hannah R. Long
More Fats, More Femmes, And No Whites: A Critical Examination Of Fatphobia, Femmephobia And Racism On Grindr by Matthew Conte
Fat Activism: A Queer Autoethnography by Charlotte Cooper
Spatial Awarishness: Queer Women And The Politics Of Fat Embodiment by Adrienne C. Hill
Fat Mutha: Hip Hop’s Queer Corpulent Poetics by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Other
A Queer and Trans Fat Activist Timeline by Charlotte Cooper
Transcript: Fat & Queer Intersections Webinar by NAAFA
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