Still Brazen Episode 5: “I’m So Ready to Not Be Brave for Putting on Clothes”: Zoe Whittall and Allison Taylor in Conversation About Fat Femme-ininities  

In this episode, award-winning novelist Zoe Whittall and fat studies femme scholar Allison Taylor revisit Whittall's contributions to Brazen Femme: "Fat is a Femme-inine Issue" and "Fevers, Fallouts, and Fast Foods." In conversation about Taylor's research on fat femmes and
Whittall's recent essays on femme, they discuss fat hatred, fat activism, and evolving fat femme-ininities, as well as the possibilities of low femme as it intersects with disability and aging.  

Check out the transcript here: https://www.yorku.ca/cfr/wp-content/uploads/sites/255/2023/10/Still-Brazen-Podcast-Transcript-Episode-5.pdf

Links:

Zoe Whittall: https://linktr.ee/Zoewhittall

Allison Taylor: https://revisioncentre.ca/about/who-we-are/revision-team/allison-taylor

“Femme Fatale” essay in Harper’s Bazaar: https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a37258757/femme-fatale/

“Send Me to Love Femme Paradise” essay in Autostraddle: https://www.autostraddle.com/send-me-to-low-femme-paradise/

Pretty, Porky, and Pissed Off: https://bodiesintranslation.ca/pretty-porky-and-pissed-off/

Clit Lit & Elizabeth Ruth: https://xtramagazine.com/culture/we-the-people-45433

Allyson Mitchell: http://allysonmitchell.com/

Mariko Tamaki: https://www.instagram.com/marikotamaki/?hl=en

Podcast Credits:

Created and produced by: Dr. Andi Schwartz

Recorded by: Dr. Andi Schwartz and Michael Fong

Edited by: Dr. Andi Schwartz, Rafia Naz, and Maykel Shehata

Music by: Dr. Andi Schwartz and Michael Fong

Supported by: The Centre for Feminist Research and the Media Creation Lab at York University Sponsored by: The Graduate Program in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies (York); The Sexuality Studies Program (York); The School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies (York); The Institute for Research in Digital Literacies (York); The Digital Scholarship Centre at the Scott Library (York); and the Joint Program in Communication and Cultural Studies (York & TMU)