Most members of the LGBTIQ+ community are very familiar with the never-ending process of coming out. But does coming out as LGBTIQ+ or any other identity under the rainbow umbrella mean we are off the hook? Nope, not if we are also fat. Navigating living our best queer fat lives in the heavily sexualized LGBTIQ+ scene is a big challenge and many struggles of fat queers remain invisible to the non-fat majority of the community.

The panel will discuss these experiences, present examples of the ways in which diet culture can be both normative and harmful, and offer reasons for not needing to cringe when you hear the word “fat”. When used with respect, it is an act of reclaiming – a superpower of the queers. Never before has the topic of fatness been discussed publicly in the LGBTIQ+ community in Ljubljana, so come shed some stereotypes without shedding a kilo.

Moderation: Linn Julian Koletnik, TransAkcija