Results for: \"fit for a femme\"
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Swimsuits, Lingerie & Jumpsuits – Fat Femmes Share Their Favorite Shops!
“All I’ve ever wanted in life is slutty thigh-high socks – and I’ve finally found them”
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Fat Femmes On How They Show Their Queerness Through Fashion
10 years ago I looked in the mirror and was scared I looked straight. Now I can’t see anything besides a very slutty dyke.
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Hot Like Summer: A Lingerie Shopping Guide for Fat Femmes
Finding lingerie that fits your body might seem like not a big deal, but I firmly believe everyone deserves to feel good in their bodies. If feeling good means putting on a velvet teddy, then you should have that option available to you.
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Fast Fashion Diaries — Fat Femmes On the Difficulties of Curating an Ethical Wardrobe
“Fat and poor people don’t have the easiest access to clothing that makes us feel fly AND is affordable.”
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Strapping As A Fat Femme Was My Black Queer Sexual Liberation
A fat Black femme explores the relationship with her body and shares how strapping became part of her sexual liberation.
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Puberty, Gym Class & Aeropostale — Fat Femmes On Their Childhood Style
“It sounds like we were all told by others that we were too big as children — rather than actually feeling that way ourselves?”
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Hot for the Holigays: A Holiday Lookbook for Fat Femmes
Here are some looks that will make you the best dressed at your family get-together, your office party, or your solo celebration.
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Find Your Fit: The Femme Boi Tired of Translating Masculine Looks for Fat Bodies
“My gender, in a few words: femme boi, domestic witch, cry baby, plant mom.”
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Insta Crush: Jamie Thrower, the Fat Femme Behind Studio XIII Photography, Creates Visual Love Letters to Our Community
“I believe that stepping in front of a camera is one of the most vulnerable things you can do, and so I want everyone who allows me the honor of photographing them to feel celebrated and seen and loved.”
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Femme Fashion Is Queer Fashion
“I sat there staring at my laptop screen soaking in the news that my love of flirty summer dresses, brightly hued tights, wine-colored lipstick and smiling radiantly in photos made me invisible to those I wanted most to be seen by. I thought I had to make a choice between authenticity and visibility.”
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An Ode to Fat Tomboy Femmes: Effortlessly Cool Plus-Size Outfits
I’m still defining “tomboy femme” style for myself but it gets exponentially harder to find inspiration when all I see is fashion for white, thin bodies. I’m a fat tomboy femme of color and I deserve cute outfits!
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Raising Baby T. Rex: The Soft Underbelly of a Hard Femme Mama
I love how soft I am postpartum. It’s a reminder of how my body stretched and grew and changed to grow a tiny human. I didn’t know I could be that strong and that soft simultaneously. I didn’t know my softness could be my strength.
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La Boda Jota #3: What’s a Fat Tomboy Femme to Wear on Her Wedding Day?
The first question people asked me when I got engaged was what I was going to wear to the wedding. My impulse reaction was to blurt out, “how the fuck should I know?”
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PHOTOESSAY: Shoog & Zaire on Proving the Divinity Of Fat Folks
“I came to you in a state of exhaustion with all these things that have been weighing on me for so long and I wanted to find a way to celebrate myself.”
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How We Feel About Being Fat
A reader requested a roundtable where Autostraddle’s fat staff talk about how fatness, diet culture, and body positivity, relate to our queerness, identity, and gender. We aim to please, so here we are!
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Lookbook: ModCloth and A-Camp’s Queer Femme Summer Plus-Size Party Was Real Dreamy
Transformative. Powerful. Restorative. Life-changing. These are some of the words A-Campers used to describe the Body Posi Plus Size Party we hosted with ModCloth and Mary Lambert at A-Camp X.
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You Need Help: You’re New to the Queer Dating Scene, Do You Need to Change Yourself?
One person is worried being femme and bi will stop her from dating. Another is worried being fat and having no experience will. Good news! None of that will stop you!
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You Need Help: Is It Normal to Feel Sexy When You Gain Weight? (Yes)
“There’s nothing better than finding out the way you love your body the most, and you’ve done that. Don’t let anyone make you feel bad or weird for that.”
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This Queer Fat Femme Is Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, and You Can Follow Along
Vanessa is thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail this summer and she’s taking us with her! Follow along as she walks 2,650 miles from Mexico to Canada.
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8 Of the Hottest Fat Fashion Trends for This Summer
Other great trends for this fat queers this summer include aliens, tweed, Bodysuits and beachwear as formal wear.