Activist History

25+ Years of Social Justice

From community building, to event organising, to educational comics, to academic publication, I’ve spent over two decades working to make the world a more equitable place.

Activist History

25+ Years of Social Justice

From community building, to event organising, to educational comics, to academic publication, I’ve spent over two decades working to make the world a more equitable place.

Empowering Myself and Others through Art & Community Building

I grew up in the early 90s as a fat, closeted queer in an evangelical church community, surviving body shaming, the Satanic Panic, and countless legislative attacks on the queer community — all before the Internet. That experience taught me the value of visibility, connection, and collective action and inspired all my passion projects. Please explore them below!

TechnoDyke.Com

TechnoDyke was one of the first and largest online communities for queer women (trans inclusive). From 1998-2008, we ran a crew of 20 writers serving celebrity interviews, book/music reviews, and lifestyle pieces, plus a thriving forum with 15k active members, serving 2 million page views per month, and spawning real world connections across the globe. TechnoDyke was selected for historic archive by the US Library of Congress, and played a pivotal role in the US Supreme Court case Matal v. Tam (2017) which ensured the rights of marginalised communities to trademark and reclaim terms used to disparage us.

FatGirl Speaks

I founded FatGirl Speaks, a series of conferences and performances in Portland, Oregon from 2003 to 2006 on the topic of Fat Liberation. Performers flew in from across the US to celebrate the resilience, creativity, and capability of people in fat bodies.

We hosted fat fashion shows and workshops on Fat Liberation, and contributed to a years-long public debate about sizeism and weight stigma in local and national media.

Through sold out events and ongoing community building, we helped to build and support a more body positive community in Portland.

12 Good Fatty Archetypes

A web comic now widely in use as a training tool and highly cited in Fat Studies. Read it here!

ChunkyDunk PDX

ChunkyDunk was Portland Oregon’s first inclusive fat community swim and ran from 2006-2019!

Flying While Fat

A research project producing the largest dataset of fat passenger experience, a viral animation, two journal articles, and online community. Click here for more information.

Rad Fatty Merit Badges

Starting as a lark on my Facebook wall, these badges took on a life of their own via an 830% funded crowdfunding campaign! Click here for more information.

Blasphemy Ball PDX

Er, sometimes you just gotta blow off some steam, y’know? And sometimes that looks like selling out a club and suspending a guy in a diaper and a thorny crown by fish hooks above the stage. Je ne regrette rien.

PussyPuckerPots Lip Balm

Sex positive vegan lip balms with flavours like Vanilla Vulva, Lemon Labia, and Clitoris Citrus. Sold in 150+ shops worldwide with a playful romp through the press — I even made Playboy print the word Feminist!

Up All Night Anthology

Up All Night was an erotica anthology for Alyson Publications that I co-edited with the lovely Rachel Kramer Bussel in 2004. The launch event was particularly hilarious – with local community members acting out steamy scenes on stage, soap opera style, in between Drag King acts. So good!

Let’s work together

Are you someone with a story to tell?

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Years Of Telling Stories and Gathering Community for Change
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Years of Creative Dissemination work with researchers and charities.
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Animations and Illustrations created across dozens of institutions globally.
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film festival showings and gallery exhibitions internationally.

Your Stories are Moving.

Your Stories are Moving.

Thanks for coming to listen to mine — I can’t wait to hear more about how I can help you tell the world about yours!