What is the aim of this blog?

I've been thinking further about what I want to do with this blog, why I want it to exist and it's niche.  There are several areas that I am passionate about:

- Fat Acceptance

- Rediscovering pleasure from food and cooking

- BDSM Acceptance

- Acceptance of non-normative sexualities and relationship practices

- Literature, Film and Theory that explores the above issues

This blog will have writings upon all of these areas and how they interact with one another.  It will not be a narrow focused blog but will connect these ideas because no one area exists in a vacuum. All of these areas have been the focus of my academic work at some point or other, I want to use this blog as a place to test out ideas and allow me to write about things that fascinate me (and hopefully others) in a less formal environment. 

I also want to use this blog as a place to help instigate meet-ups, events and encourage discussion.  Perhaps there could even be discussion events? informal seminars?  I'm open to ideas.  I just feel excited and want to share that with others!

Who is Dirty Brownie Chubster?

Welcome all.

I am Dirty Brownie. Chubster. Fat Activist Extraordinaire.

Why?  

I love things to be exciting and different, plus I make incredible brownies.  

What is a Chubster?

I am part of the Chubster gang - a group who are proud to be fat.  We fight for fat acceptance.  We embrace being different. We challenge the norms - queer, femme, fat and angry. 

What will this blog do?

It will have discuss fat (fat panic, fat acceptance, fat activism and all others things fat). I will also use it as a profile to discuss current and future events in London and Exeter.

What inspired me to do this?

Tonight (Sunday, 29th March 2009) I went to the Invasion of the Chubsters that was a special event in the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. The Chubster Gang organised the evening of bad behaviour, archive film clips and a programme of exciting short films by and about fat queers.  If that wasn't enough, there were discussions, chats and an amazing performance. A singer (all filmed) ended up dragging everyone up to dance in the cinema to be proud of who you are - whatever that individual mix is.  We all have a right to take up space and have a voice.

After the event came the initiation ceremony for those who wanted to join the Chubster Gang. This is where and how I became Dirty Brownie. I have my membership card. I signed the wall. I posed for a photo to go on the site (didn't manage angry that well, as I kept laughing).  I said on camera how I'd find the event inspirational, so I would start something of my own. This blog is the beginning of that journey.