#AbundantBodies

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Abundant Bodies is on Thursday and we cannot wait for it. All of our hard work is coming together to make an amazing day full of great content and connected community. Our session leaders are going to be amazing.

You can find the rest of the schedule for Allied Media Conference at amc2018.sched.com

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Support Abundant Bodies!!

Support fat community created for and by Indigenous, Black, People of Color, Dis/abled, Super-sized, Trans and Queer fat folks by donating today. Every dollar counts to meet our goal! http://bit.ly/ABdonate2017

We have a TON of amazing perks, including a personal facetime with our official Abundant Bodies mascot Itty Bitty for only $25!

Only a monster would pass up this opportunity to facetime with THIS FACE. 

Don’t be a monster. Donate today!

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8 Plus Size & Body Positive Projects To Sink Your Teeth Into

8 Plus Size & Body Positive Projects To Sink Your Teeth Into

Reading about body positivity and joining online groups that support loving yourself for who you are today is great but sometimes you want more. Instead of reading about a great event, product or movement you can help fund them and be in the know from the very beginning. Listed below are just a few projects that are currently in the funding stage. Check them out. Just Curves Plus Size…

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Belly Flop! Session at #AMC2015 ended in the most epic dance break! #AbundantBodies

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PLEASE BOOST/SPREAD WIDELY! And donate whatever you can!!! THANK YOU!! The Allied Media Conference is a collaborative laboratory of media-based organizing strategies for transforming our world, held every Summer in Detroit. For the first time this year, there will be a track (series of workshops/panels/sessions) that will explore body positivity in our movements and create media that resists dominant narratives about body size. Some of the most well-known fat activists (including Dr. Charlotte Cooper, Amanda Levitt, Virgie Tovar) will be sharing their brilliance alongside up and coming young qtpoc fatties. Some of the topics and issues folks are exploring include race & fat activism, the "dangers" of excessive selfie consumptions, exploring fat & kink, building an inclusive fat community, body autonomy vs. body positivity, reimagining desirability, fat activism for unruly people, and so much more! From the program guide: ln this track we will gather, share and celebrate the wisdom and abundance of our bodies. Abundant/thick/fat bodies are the target of so much hate, policing and negativity, even in our organizing communities. How do we unlearn mainstream ideas of what a body should look like and (re)-learn to celebrate the diversity, resilience, wisdom and beauty of all bodies? This track will explore these questions and create spaces to challenge the ongoing ways mainstream media shames and harms abundant bodies, to name fatphobia in our organizing and activism, and to create media and practical strategies for resistance, healing and community building. We will broaden the conversation around fat activism by centering this track on the voices of Indigenous, Black, people of color, dis/abled, super-sized, trans and queer fat folks. Through workshops, panels and skillshares we will transform mainstream ideas around abundant bodies and create resilient communities, media and art centred around abundant bodies! What We Need & What You Get Like most organizers, we are doing this on the fly and need community support in order to make sure all our presenters and panelists can make it to Detroit for the Conference in June. Our proposed budget: $250 for travel, housing & registration for coordinators, presenters and panelists (23 x 250) = 5,750 Food for lunch & dinner caucuses = 300 Indiegogo fees = 450 Total = $6,500 We will prioritize workshop presenters and coordinators if we are unable to reach our fundraising goal, and will also raise funds through a community event in Toronto in June.

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ABUNDANT BUDDIES! It's Abundant Bodies Fundraiser time! Donate to our fundraiser so we can support our amazing session leaders who are going to take over Allied Media Conference talking about building an anti-racist fat activist movement, uplifting the voices of POC in the community, teaching black + fat + queer folks to love their bodies and so much more!! All of the money we raise will be spent supporting our session leaders to pay them for their labor and help get them to AMC.

Donate here!!!

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Abundant Bodies is out here and needing some 🤑cheddar🤑to help support our mission of building a Fat Acceptance movement centered on QTBIPOC voices. So donate! And for just $2, our coordinator Linda will give you a really shitty impression of someone famous PERSONALLY THANKING YOU. That sounds fantastic, right? PLUS - NOLOSE will match what we raise - so it’s like you’re donating TWICE THE AMOUNT! 🌟BOOM🌟 Interested? Clickety click on over here 👉🏽https://igg.me/at/ab2018

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Donate to the Abundant Bodies 2018 Fundraiser and get your hands on a Teggings Prize Pack! 

Donate here!

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Coming to Abundant Bodies tomorrow? Check out our schedule to you know what time to be there!! Don’t forget to register either! http://bit.ly/AB17registration

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Abundant Bodies Network Gathering Schedule June 15th, 2017 Location - McGregor Room C

10am - 10:30am - Breakfast 10:30 - 11:30 - Making the Personal Political with Amanda Levitt, Fat disabled femme. PhD Student. 11:30pm - 12:45 pm - Saturated Fat: Making Fatness Visible Through Performance with Meredith L. King, Sam Dee, Jailyn Sherell Harris & Samantha V. Richards. 1pm - 2pm - Lunch 2pm - 3pm - Fatness and the Uses of the Erotic with Kytara Epps, Fat black feminist and public health practitioner 3pm - 4pm - Love Your Selfie with Linda Dianne, Fat Latinx media maker with a grudge. 4pm - 5pm - Closing Session]

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Call for Proposals!

Calling All Abundant, Fat, Plus Sized, Succulent, and Thick Peoples From All Over!

This year at the Allied Media Conference we are coming back together as a network gathering to continue our conversations and expand on the work we’ve done in previous years. How can we work together to deconstruct fat stigma and other forms of marginalization while building a stronger and more inclusive fat community? How can we challenge ourselves to decenter whiteness, capitalism, ableism, cissexism, heterosexism and classism while we explore what it means to be fat? We will explore these questions and create media and practical strategies for resistance, healing and community building.

We are looking for a variety of session proposals that may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Fat community 101 - 

How to love your body

Ally building for thin folks and privileged fat folks

Body autonomy and social media

Anti-racist fat activism

Skillshares and tools for surviving and thriving

Bodies, health and movement -

Breaking down connections between health and weight

Body movement / dance / practice for all bodies

Fat sexuality

Super-sized community members

Fatness at its intersections -

Fatness and femme identity

Fatness and masculinity

Sci-fi bodies as fat, queer and people of color

Dis/ability and fatness

History of indigenous / people of color / Black / trans / dis/ability / supersize fat activism

Tools for young fat folks

Breaking down discussions about fatness through race, class, gender and other identities

Submit a proposal for the gathering here.

Everyone at the Abundant Bodies team hopes to see you there on June 15th to kick off another amazing AMC weekend.

**The deadline to submit a proposal is March 15th.

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It's Abundant Bodies time!

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Would you like S'more? You have to come to Abundant Bodies lunch session on Friday to get them. #macaron #amc2016 #abundantbodies

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We need community support in order to make sure all our presenters and panelists can make it to Detroit for the Conference in June. At our $3000 goal, we would be able to provide a small stipend for all involved AND host a large-scale event where presenters, panelists, and attendees will have a space safe for fellow beautiful, body accepting and abundant bodies. CHECK OUT OUR INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN & DONATE TODAY: https://igg.me/at/abundantbodies2016/x/10894446

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Calling All Abundant, Fat, Plus Sized, Succulent, and Thick Peoples From All Over!

This year at the Allied Media Conference 2016 (June 16-19 in Detroit, MI) we are coming back together to continue our conversations, share skills, experiences, stories, media, knowledge and strategies to build a more beautiful, body accepting and abundant loving future!

The Abundant Bodies Track challenges the ongoing ways mainstream media shames and harms abundant bodies, name fat phobia in our organizing and activism, and create media and practical strategies for resistance, healing and community building. We will broaden the conversation around fat activism by centering this track on the voices of indigenous, Black, people of color, dis/abled, super-sized, trans and queer fat folks. Abundant/thick/fat bodies are the target of so much hate, policing and negativity, even in our organizing communities. 

How can we work together to deconstruct fat stigma and other forms of marginalization while building a stronger and more inclusive fat community? How can we challenge ourselves to decenter whiteness, capitalism, ableism, cissexism, heterosexism and classism while we explore what it means to be fat?

We will explore these questions and create spaces to challenge the ongoing ways mainstream media shames and harms abundant bodies. Our goal is to create media and practical strategies for resistance, healing and community building.

We are looking for a variety of session proposals that may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Fat community 101

How to love your body

Ally building for thin folks and privileged fat folks

Body autonomy and social media

Anti-racist fat activism

Skillshares and tools for surviving and thriving

Bodies, health and movement

Breaking down connections between health and weight

Body movement / dance / practice for all bodies

Fat sexuality

Super-sized community members

Fatness at its intersections

Fatness and femme identity

Fatness and masculinity

Sci-fi bodies as fat, queer and people of color

Dis/ability and fatness

History of indigenous / people of color / Black / trans / dis/ability / supersize fat activism

Tools for young fat folks

Breaking down discussions about obesity through race, class, gender and other identities

Proposals are due March 11th, 2016 at midnight. Submit YOURS by filling out the form linked here.

If you have any questions regarding your proposal or this track, please contact us via on the Abundant Bodies Discussion Page on AMP Talk or at abundantbodies@gmail.com.

**Abundant Bodies and the Allied Media Conference is committed to creating a space that allows for access to all community members regardless of economics. We will be fundraising in the near future to make sure we can support all of the session coordinators who need it in order to give as many voices in fat community the platform they deserve.

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We feel like a million bucks thanks to our shiny new logo! Follow us on Instagram for more updates as they happen. GO!

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Abundant Bodies 2015 - Reflections

It has been a month since AMC 2015 and as the coordinators of the Abundant Bodies track we are still so fulfilled with the amazing space we created over the weekend. We found every goal and hope we had for the weekend was surpassed with the amount of love everyone brought to each session. Throughout the weekend sessions were full to the point some sessions had to turn people away. People cried, laughed, danced, ate yummy food and built community together. It was beautiful.

We made our goal fundraising as well, through the amazing donations that were made to our indiegogo campaign along with the on the ground organizing done in Philly by our amazing coordinator Najee. We were able to support our session organizers, help pay for food for our lunch session and pay for travel expenses for people who needed it.

We have so many people to personally thank but we wanted to thank anyone who came to a session, our session organizers, the coordinators, anyone who shared our fundraiser or posts about the track, AND everyone who donated.

We also want to personally thank - Bonnie, tatebrazas, lrock212, Carol, and Mel for donating / selecting the public shoutout perk. 

See you next year at AMC 2016!!

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Aruna, Najee, Amanda and Tyra