Join the Q Center in bringing Virgie Tovar to UW to talk about constructing and performing the “fat bitch” from a fat, feminist, queer, woman of color perspective.
Virgie Tovar is the editor of Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (Seal Press, 2012). She is one of the nation’s leading lecturers and activists in the area of fat discrimination. She holds an MA in Sexuality Studies with a concentration on the intersections of size, race and gender. She has been featured by Al Jazeera, NPR, Huffington Post, Bust Magazine, and the San Francisco
Chronicle.
When: Tuesday, April 22nd from 6:15-7:30pm
Where: Odegaard 220
Find her online at www.virgietovar.com
The event: https://www.facebook.com/events/406686616135639/
The event will be ASL interpreted. The space is wheelchair accessible. While the space itself is not scent-free, please do not wear scented or fragranced products so that we can make the space accessible for people with chemical injury or multiple chemical sensitivity.
