Resurrecting the Big Fat Carnival

A couple days ago I got in touch with Ampersand to find out if there was any chance of the sixth (or seventh?) Big Fat Carnival taking place. For those who aren’t familiar with the carnivals, here’s how Ampersand describes them:

The Big Fat Carnival is a carnival for collecting some of the best blog posts regarding fat pride; fat acceptance; critiques of anti-fat bigotry, attitudes and research; celebration of images of fat people; practical difficulties of being fat; fat love (queer and otherwise); feminist views of fat and fat acceptance; the health at every size movement (HAES); and whatever else each edition’s editor feels fits into the theme.

(But please note, The Big Fat Carnival is not a place to advocate weight-loss diets, weight loss surgery (WLS), or feederism.)

Of course, I heard back - since Ampersand isn’t blogging much anymore, he was fine with someone else running with it. I’ve poked around the archives there and it looks like the last edition was the fifth, back in October of 2006. There’ve been plenty of fantastic fat blogs flourishing since then, so it seems like it’d be a good time for another edition of the Big Fat Carnival.

The sixth edition of the Big Fat Carnival will be hosted here at Seeworthy on Wednesday, September 19th. You can submit your favorite fat posts (from other blogs, or your own) via this web form or via the contact form on this site. The deadline for submission is Sunday, September 16th.

In the past, Big Fat Carnivals have been both general, and themed. To check out Big Fat Carnivals of the past, check out the official post on Alas, a blog.

I’d like for these to become regular events again; if you’re interested in hosting a future edition of the Big Fat Carnival, go ahead and hit up the contact form here on the site and let me know.