Category: FaT GiRL 2 — February, 1995

The cover of FaT GiRL #2. Photo of April Miller by Laura Johnston. Feb., 1995

Comic by Max Airborne. FaT GiRL #2, February, 1995.

Table of contents

Letters from FaT GiRL readers.

Reader responses to our survey.

Fat-related news.

“My grandfather always said everybody loves a fat man but nobody loves a fat woman. Even as a young child I remember his taunts: fatty–little pig–fatso. These words came at me from one of the biggest men I had ever seen.”

Reflections on fat and gender by Oso, from FaT GiRL #2, February, 1995.

Six fat dykes of different ages and backgrounds talk about age, fat, sex, and fat liberation.

From FaT GiRL #2, February, 1995.

Poetry by Osa Shade

An April Fools’ Day idea — phone zap the diet industry with sincere questions.

From FaT GiRL #2, February, 1995

The Gear Queen offers advice on wiping for folks who need to extend their reach. From FaT GiRL #2, February, 1995.

FaT GiRL’s Kitchen Slut, Bertha, teaches us how to make veggie bread pudding.Photos by Laura Johnson

Review of a 1994 performance by 4 Big Girls.

by Barbarism
from FaT GiRL #2, February, 1995

An anonymous personals ad leads to a spicy encounter.

Smut by Barbarism from FaT GiRL #2, February, 1994.

Readers sent in photos of their fat butts!

Poem by Malaina Poore, photos by Laura Johnston.

Review by Candida Albicans Royale
Comment by April Miller

April is tonight’s sumptuous feast. Photographs by Laura Johnston

By day she is a mild-mannered, middle-aged, fat woman, who empties the trash for corporate America for a living. Nighttime tells a different story.

By Betty Rose Dudley

Charlotte Cooper looks for a radical fat politics that includes people who aren’t lesbians.

Turn the tables on your concern-trolling “friends!”

Deep thoughts about using the gay hanky code to signal fatness.

Reader responses to our survey.

photographs by Laura Johnston

Max Airborne on the emotional labor of producing FaT GiRL.

FaT GiRL #2, 1995

The Frigidaire Queen. Poetry by Candida Albicans Royale. FaT GiRL #2, February, 1995.

Review of Madeleine George’s play, by Elizabeth Stark

Review of Fat Girl Dances with Rocks, by Susan Stinson.

Story by April Miller. Photos by Laura Johnston.

A comic by Sondra Solovay.

The dangers of dieting.

Advice for eating lunch in public.

A collage

Reader responses to our survey.

Photos of Betty Rose Dudley, taken by Cath Thompson.

Fat Chick answers a question from a fatty in Iowa surrounded by fat dykes suffering from internalized fatphobia. From FaT GiRL #2, February, 1995.

The further adventures of Super Slut, Dyke Boy and more.

Resource listings:
Media Feast: Books, zines, movies, music, Announcements, Organizations,
From Fat GiRL #2, February, 1995.

Catalog reviews by Selena

Send in your pussy pics!

Brief bios

How about a date?

Photograph by Laura Johnston

Photograph by Laura Johnston.