zine review:
Fat Grrrlz! #2
Fat Grrrlz! describes itself as a “radical response to anti-fat culture.” Filled with personal essays, encouraging reminders (“Do tell people what you think!” reads one handwritten page, “Don’t assume they get it”), interviews and “Fat Resources,” Fat Grrrlz! is both a love-letter to size pride and acceptance and a call to reclaim the word “fat” with comfort and conviction. Author Brandi-Lee lends the zine humour, too, scrawling “WTF?” alongside vintage advertisements that admonish us: “Don’t Be Fat!” But Fat Grrrlz! is more than, as it says, a response to anti-fat culture: it also seeks to forge a new culture, where one’s size is something to be proud of. (Clara Lavery)
zine, Brandi Lee, P.O. Box 1568, New York, NY, 10276, uSA, [email protected], $2 uS/$3 elsewhere or trade