1. 20 May


    A super duper big thank you goes out to Margitte of Riots Not Diets today! This weekend she held a fat fashion swap in San Diego and raised $180 for Fierce Fashion Futures. This money will go towards travel costs for presenters. THANK YOU MARGITTE!!

    A super duper big thank you goes out to Margitte of Riots Not Diets today! This weekend she held a fat fashion swap in San Diego and raised $180 for Fierce Fashion Futures. This money will go towards travel costs for presenters. THANK YOU MARGITTE!!

     

  2. 20 May



    Help Laura Luna Get to the AMC in Detroit!

    lalunafemme:

    Dear Community,

    I am coming to you to ask for support to make it to the Allied Media Conference next month in June. This is my first time attending the conference and I am so excited. Not only will I be attending, but I’m also 1/3rd of the organizing crew for the Fierce Fashion Futures track and the co-organizer/producer for the Open Runway Show. I am so so excited to spread the gospel of Fierce Fashion with a social justice twist for everyBODY at such an amazing conference such as The Allied Media Conference, I just need some help to get there to make it happen <3 

    Currently, I have my registration covered. What I’m asking for help in fundraising is for the following plus the 5% that gofundme will take from each donation :

    Housing (at WSU dorms)
    Flight (LAX-DTW)

    Total: Approx 600.00 

    These two items are my immediate needs. If I go above and beyond my goal, any additional monies will be used for travel between the airport and WSU, meals while at the conference, and supplies needed for the fashion show/open runway night.

    About the track I’m co-organizing
    Fierce Fashion Futures


    Fashion is media and politics at the same time. Fashion is life and art at the same time. Every day we communicate something about who we are, who we want and what kind of world we want with our clothes and our bodies.
    How can we understand the ways that fashion builds community and simultaneously excludes from community? How can we reclaim beauty in our own fat, QTPOC, differently abled queer radical selves?
    Fashion can be used as emotional and spiritual armor as well as physical protection from police and chemical weapons. What new possibilities for expression and network building are created by wearable electronics, e-textiles and new fashion technologies?
    How are activists and fashion hackers creating the future of how we express ourselves with our bodies? How does fashion work in radical media, dance and performance? From Trayvon Martin’s killing being justified by him being a black man wearing a hoodie, to CeCe McDonald’s attack being linked to her transgender clothing choices to thousands of women marching in SlutWalks to reclaim their right to dress how they please without being subject to violence, the political meaning of clothing is an important site of struggle today.
    Part of this track will include an Open Runway Night, like an open mic night for fashion to display all the fierce powerful beauty at the Allied Media Conference 2013!


    About the Open Runway Show :

    An Open Runway Fashion Show like an Open Mic poetry slam, bring your fiercest runway performance!
    This session is a place to showcase all the fierce beauty at the Allied Media Conference 2013. In response to the existing fashion world where beauty standards are handed down to us and devalue our bodies, this fashion show is Open Runway in the style of an Open Mic poetry slam. The fashion show will be a place for AMC participants to express their idea of beauty however they please, not being restricted to a runway walk with a bored expression, but encouraging participants to use the space to perform their idea of Fierce Fashion Futures. Everyone is welcome on our runway!


    About me:

    Laura Luna P is a self ID’d Queer, Fat, Xican@ Chola Femme. She is a Cultural Curator & Community builder who lives and loves in Los Angeles, CA. Laura Luna has been doing community work in Southern California for over 10 years, working primarily in creating space for Femmes of Color, QTPOC and queers in Fashion/Art. Previous fashion projects have included styling for Queerture (fashion show for the UCLA Queer Studies Conference in 2010- here’s a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8JhiUkpBSM ), Creative Consulting for INVINCIBLE (fashion show for the 2009 Butch Voices LA Conference), co-producer of Sapphic Threads (vintage butch/femme fashion show at the LA Gay and Lesbian Center in 2006) and running her etsy shoppe Queering Vintage. Wardrobe for film/video projects include: So PoMo (video for queer hip hop artist Metahuman), Chavez (directed by Diego Luna), and The Good Kind (short film dir by Ofelia Yanez)

    Currently, I’m committed to creating safe spaces and building community for Femmes in Los Angeles, 1/3rd of The Roundettes
    (a queer, fat, femme burlesque troupe), spreading the gospel of Fierce Fashion for everyBody & supporting and attending various queer art & political events in LA all while holding down a 9-5.

    I am so appreciative and thankful for every single donation (I know we all work hard for our $). No donation is too small or no share on social media platforms/signal boost taken for granted.

    Other ways to support my campaign is to share share share on your social media platforms and also, if you love vintage please consider shopping at my vintage etsy shoppe Queering Vintage. All proceeds from any sales in my etsy shoppe from now till the conference will go towards my expenses for the conference.

    I’d also love to send you a postcard from Detroit during the conference to thank you for your donation. When you donate, please send me a private note with your address if you’d like and I’ll make sure you get a little memento from my time in Detroit, just a little way to say thanks for your donation.

    Again, Thank each and every one of you for your support in making this huge dream of mine become a reality <3 Please signal boost. <3 

    In Community,

    Laura Luna P.

     

  3. 20 May


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  4. 17 May


    streetetiquette:

    Street Etiquette

    (Source: falafelkimchii, via blackfashion)

     

  5. 17 May


    riotsnotdiets: riotsnotdiets: ATTENTION ALL SOCAL FATTIES!!! THIS Sunday we’re having a swap to benefit Fierce Fashion Futures (and, let’s be honest, our own closets). If you’re in the San Diego area, please drop off your clean clothes, shoes, &amp; accessories (all in wearable condition!) before Sunday. If you’re coming from out of town, you can bring your donations the day of. Admission is $10. Please RSVP to margitte@gmail.com to get the address! It probably goes without saying but this is a fat-positive event which means no negative body talk. Any mentions of dieting or weight loss will result in you being asked to leave. In fact, any oppressive talk about any marginalized group will result in the same. Let’s work to create a safer space for radical fat community! RSVP now on our Facebook page! This is gonna be so great! &lt;3 

    riotsnotdiets:

    riotsnotdiets:

    ATTENTION ALL SOCAL FATTIES!!!

    THIS Sunday we’re having a swap to benefit Fierce Fashion Futures (and, let’s be honest, our own closets). If you’re in the San Diego area, please drop off your clean clothes, shoes, & accessories (all in wearable condition!) before Sunday. If you’re coming from out of town, you can bring your donations the day of. Admission is $10.

    Please RSVP to margitte@gmail.com to get the address!

    It probably goes without saying but this is a fat-positive event which means no negative body talk. Any mentions of dieting or weight loss will result in you being asked to leave. In fact, any oppressive talk about any marginalized group will result in the same. Let’s work to create a safer space for radical fat community!

    RSVP now on our Facebook page! This is gonna be so great! <3 

     

  6. 17 May


    oklacoma: Ladies put the “sex” in uni-sex Eep. The thing to me about American Apparel is that, although they are super sexist and have had some pretty terrible sexual harassment lawsuits, they are one of the only reliable sources for relatively affordable non-sweatshop made goods. It feels like a pretty big case of being forced to choose the lesser of two evils. What do you think?

    oklacoma:

    Ladies put the “sex” in uni-sex

    Eep.

    The thing to me about American Apparel is that, although they are super sexist and have had some pretty terrible sexual harassment lawsuits, they are one of the only reliable sources for relatively affordable non-sweatshop made goods. It feels like a pretty big case of being forced to choose the lesser of two evils. What do you think?

    (Source: socialismartnature, via nadialeatz)

     

  7. 16 May


    datingdisastersofaqueergirl:

    exceptdissent:

    GOOD GODDESS.

    jesus frickin christ

    (Source: thefashionbomb)

     

  8. 16 May


    barrio-dandy: At #subsuelo @eastsideluv #Barriodandy #barriodandystyle #vintagefashion #vintageClothing #1950s #1940s #1960s #dapper #style #fashion #instagood #instafashion #vintagestyle #vintage #mensswear #menstyle #styling firme

    barrio-dandy:

    At #subsuelo @eastsideluv #Barriodandy #barriodandystyle #vintagefashion #vintageClothing #1950s #1940s #1960s #dapper #style #fashion #instagood #instafashion #vintagestyle #vintage #mensswear #menstyle #styling

    firme

     

  9. 15 May


    grossnational:

    Bell Labs, 1970

    Smart women with fabulous style.

    (via girlsgetbusyzine)

     

  10. 15 May


    thepoliticalfreakshow: Bangladesh Walkout: 80% of Bangladesh’s Garment Workers Walk Out Of Work Today To Protest Horrible Working Conditions, Effectively Shutting Down Garment Factories Indefinitely Bangladesh’s entire renowned garment manufacturing hub has been shut down indefinitely, after 80% of its workers walked off the job. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association announced its decision to close the almost 500 factories in the Ashulia industrial zone “to ensure the security of our factories,” the AFP reports. But the move was something of a fait accompli; almost no work had taken place there since the April 24 collapse of the nearby Rana Plaza building. At the same time, three of the world’s biggest clothing purveyors—H&amp;M, C&amp;A, and Zara owner Inditex—signed a deal today legally obligating them to fund safety improvements for their Bangladesh factories, the New York Times reports. PVH, which owns Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, and Izod, which already had a similar contract in place, will also sign on. Meanwhile, search for victims at the Rana building is set to wrap up today, Reuters reports, with the latest death toll clocking in at 1,127 people. [AFP / New York Times / Reuters]

    thepoliticalfreakshow:

    Bangladesh Walkout: 80% of Bangladesh’s Garment Workers Walk Out Of Work Today To Protest Horrible Working Conditions, Effectively Shutting Down Garment Factories Indefinitely

    Bangladesh’s entire renowned garment manufacturing hub has been shut down indefinitely, after 80% of its workers walked off the job. The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association announced its decision to close the almost 500 factories in the Ashulia industrial zone “to ensure the security of our factories,” the AFP reports. But the move was something of a fait accompli; almost no work had taken place there since the April 24 collapse of the nearby Rana Plaza building.

    At the same time, three of the world’s biggest clothing purveyors—H&M, C&A, and Zara owner Inditex—signed a deal today legally obligating them to fund safety improvements for their Bangladesh factories, the New York Times reports. PVH, which owns Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, and Izod, which already had a similar contract in place, will also sign on. Meanwhile, search for victims at the Rana building is set to wrap up today, Reuters reports, with the latest death toll clocking in at 1,127 people.

    [AFP / New York Times / Reuters]

    (via ctchrss)

     

  11. 15 May


    dynamicafrica:

    FASHION 2112: LE FUTUR DU BEAU

    Using various scrap and waste raw materials, Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop creates a recyclable and futuristic fashion spread that keenly looks into what style may look like in this dystopian 22nd century setting that provides the backdrop for his creations.

    #AFRO-FUTURISM

    (via poc-creators)

     

  12. 14 May


    nickeyrobo: My new classic orthopedic clogs arrived from Sweden! F&#8217;real, I am REALLY excited about these shoes.

    nickeyrobo:

    My new classic orthopedic clogs arrived from Sweden!

    F’real, I am REALLY excited about these shoes.

     

  13. 14 May


    gabifresh: lotsalipstick: chubbycartwheels: Leigh and Chris in Velvet Love. Skirt, bandeaus, bodysuits and leggings. All available in a variety of soft stretch velvet fabrics.  Sizes 1x-5x with customization available.  www.chubbycartwheels.comPhotography- Nicole KondraStyling- Crystal Liles holy moly! i have the velvet leggings and theyre the best&#160;!

    gabifresh:

    lotsalipstick:

    chubbycartwheels:

    Leigh and Chris in Velvet Love. Skirt, bandeaus, bodysuits and leggings. All available in a variety of soft stretch velvet fabrics.  Sizes 1x-5x with customization available.

     
    www.chubbycartwheels.com

    Photography- Nicole Kondra
    Styling- Crystal Liles

    holy moly!

    i have the velvet leggings and theyre the best !

    (via riotsnotdiets)

     

  14. 14 May


    Hey! Remember the 90&#8217;s?

    Hey! Remember the 90’s?

    (Source: hologramthings, via hologramthings)

     

  15. 13 May


    fatsmartandpretty: riotsnotdiets: ATTENTION ALL SOCAL FATTIES!!! THIS Sunday we’re having a swap to benefit Fierce Fashion Futures (and, let’s be honest, our own closets). If you’re in the San Diego area, please drop off your clean clothes, shoes, &amp; accessories (all in wearable condition!) before Sunday. If you’re coming from out of town, you can bring your donations the day of. Admission is $10. Please RSVP to margitte@gmail.com to get the address! It probably goes without saying but this is a fat-positive event which means no negative body talk. Any mentions of dieting or weight loss will result in you being asked to leave. In fact, any oppressive talk about any marginalized group will result in the same. Let’s work to create a safer space for radical fat community! I donated about a third of my wardrobe for this. You should go!  Check out this super amazing FUNdaiser for Fierce Fashion Futures!

    fatsmartandpretty:

    riotsnotdiets:

    ATTENTION ALL SOCAL FATTIES!!!

    THIS Sunday we’re having a swap to benefit Fierce Fashion Futures (and, let’s be honest, our own closets). If you’re in the San Diego area, please drop off your clean clothes, shoes, & accessories (all in wearable condition!) before Sunday. If you’re coming from out of town, you can bring your donations the day of. Admission is $10.

    Please RSVP to margitte@gmail.com to get the address!

    It probably goes without saying but this is a fat-positive event which means no negative body talk. Any mentions of dieting or weight loss will result in you being asked to leave. In fact, any oppressive talk about any marginalized group will result in the same. Let’s work to create a safer space for radical fat community!

    I donated about a third of my wardrobe for this. You should go! 

    Check out this super amazing FUNdaiser for Fierce Fashion Futures!