Fatshion as Activism

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Research Article| October 01 2017 Fatshion as Activism Katie Manthey; Katie Manthey Katie Manthey is an assistant professor of English and director of the writing center at Salem College, a women’s college in Winston Salem, NC. Her research and teaching are focused around cultural rhetorics, dress studies, and civic engagement. She is a body positive activist and moderates the website Dress Profesh, which highlights the ways that dress codes are racist, cissexist, ageist, classist, etc. Her work has appeared in Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition, Jezebel, and The Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lolly Lolly Lolly is a fat fashion blogger living in the UK. Her blog, “Lolly Likes Fatshion,” can be found at www.lollylikesfatshion.blogspot.com. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2017) 4 (3): 195–201. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.4.3.0195 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Katie Manthey, Lolly; Fatshion as Activism. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 1 October 2017; 4 (3): 195–201. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.4.3.0195 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressQED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2017 Michigan State University2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Queer Conversations You do not currently have access to this content.