Main Events

11:00 am – Being Fat in Entertainment: A moderated discussion

Everyone knows that show biz is one of the most difficult places to make it as a large body. Join performers from every aspect of the Entertainment industry as they take down the stereotypes and really dig into what it's like to be a person of size in a world that is often larger than life.

Trigger Warnings: mentions of specific size or weight

1:00 pm – Alotta Conversation with Alotta Boutte

2:30 pm – WEBurlesque Podcast LIVE w/ Viktor Devonne

Join Burlesquer Viktor Devonne for the first ever live WEBurlesque podcast! The WEburlesque podcast is a nightlife-centric discussion show; Join a curated group of Burlesque humans as they talk about being big/fat/plus in the industry and what Fat Con and FatlesqueFest NW as a  convention/festival means in terms of increasing visibility for fat performers.

Trigger Warnings: sexual content, mention of specific sizes/weights, racism/colorism

4:30 pm – Tigress Osborne Keynote address

6:00 pm – Sizeable Shenanigans

Movement

9:15 am – Rope Bondage 101

10:45 am – Feeling (our) Fat

We will deeply feel into our fat bodies through embodiment exploration and creative movement. We will practice deepening into the sensations in our bodies and how to perceive and honor that somatic wisdom. I’ll guide you into exploring how your body moves, fully embracing your fat. We are going to get curious about jiggles, folds, and the momentum and gravity of fat bodies.

This class could be for you if:

• You want to unpack the ways our bodies are holding messages of fat phobia and find a new way to relate to your physical being

• You intellectually understand fat liberation, but you want to deepen your embodied and felt experience of it.

• You saw Weighted Bodies and felt compelled to explore your own body in this way

• You want to be more connected to your body exactly as it is, including your fat, not despite it."

Trigger Warnings: mental health, internalized fat phobia, detailed discussion of fat bodies

12:45 pm – Chichona, Nalgona, Panzona & Chingona

Bump and grind is for everybody and every body. During our time together, we will put together a short, sexy, feel good segment of danza to get our cuerpos moving and our corazones pumpin. We will adjust our movements for every size and capability while feeling the musica and enjoying the skin we are in. Viva la vida gorda!

Trigger Warnings: sexual content, abuse (physical, sexual, emotional), mention of specific sizes/weights

2:15 pm – Finding Joy in Movement for Any Body

Your fat body is amazing! Join Meg Humphrey, a fat personal trainer and artist, to learn more about shame-free and pro-fat ways to move focusing on mobility, stability, and strength building. The presentation will conclude with a 10 minute, fully seated movement routine.

Trigger Warnings: exercise, mention of specific size/weight

3:45 pm – Defying Gravity with Rope Bondage

Trusting someone to handle your body with care and confidence so you can let lean in and let go is not something one is inclined to do while fat. Rope bondage is for everybody and through a live demonstration of rope suspension, you will not only witness the power and strength of letting go, but you will see how beautiful it is to fly while fat.

Trigger Warnings: sexual content, mention of specific sizes/weights

5:15 pm – Meditation Break

Description: We love being together, learning, growing and sometimes we need a break to heal and assimilate change inside of ourselves.

Trigger Warnings: mental health

Panels 1

9:15 am – Fat or Swollen? A self-care guide

Learn to differentiate swelling from fat and how to tend to swelling with gravity, massage, and compression wear. Did you know that as many as 1 in 8 AFAB has undiagnosed lipedema, "the fat ankle disease" that creates chronic swelling? We'll break it all down with pictures and care strategies, and then follow along with lymphatic drainage self-massage to reduce swelling and refresh our body after a long fun weekend.

Trigger Warnings: mention of specific sizes/weights, progressive disease reference

10:30 am – Fat Phobia in Kink with Mx Pucks A’Plenty

1:00 pm – Round Table: How can we make sports more inclusive?

This roundtable discussion will create a space to discuss the barriers we've experienced to participating in sports, especially physical barriers like adequate safety gear. We will discuss what we are doing—and come up with ideas on what we can do—to push for more inclusive athletic spaces.

Trigger Warnings: mentions of specific size or weight, fatphobia

2:30 pm – Ask a Doctor: Navigating health care while fat

Join us to get your questions answered from three local weight inclusive providers from the Seattle area! This panel will answer questions from the audience, which may range from how to navigate certain health conditions to accessing sub-specialty care and other general health topics. Gain practical strategies, evidence-based information, and personal anecdotes from compassionate doctors dedicated to fat positive healthcare. Panel attendees will have the opportunity to participate in individual and collaborative creative exercises. Whether you have personally experienced weight bias or want to be an ally in the fight against stigma, this panel is a unique opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the issue and explore solutions. Together, we will dig into techniques to communicate your needs with healthcare professionals, discuss the importance of body diversity in medical settings, and explore avenues for change within the healthcare system. We cannot give direct medical advice (even though we love you), but we can affirm your right to excellent healthcare! We will close our panel with additional resources for accessing and advocating for weight inclusive healthcare.

Trigger Warnings: healthcare, specific mentions of weight/BMI, mentions of diet, fatphobia

5:00 pm – Navigating Mental Health Care and Fat Phobia

Panels 2

9:30 am – Taking the poison out of “polish” in burlesque

"You lack polish." It's a sentence that many fat burlesque performers have heard over the years. Let's dismantle and rebuild the oft-weaponized definition of "polish" in burlesque, shall we? Join Fatlesque Fest Northwest feature performer Sucre à la Crème for a talk about artistic vision, progress vs. perfection, and how a fat burlesque artist with no dance training became the 2023 Princess of Viva Las Vegas!

Trigger Warnings: mention of specific sizes/weights

11:00 am – Fat in the Wild: Adventures in the Outdoors

The mountains, trees, and animals do not care what you look like or what you can do, but that isn't always true about the people in the outdoors. I once thought that the world of outdoor adventuring was reserved for the young, the thin, the super fit and let's face it, the men. Growing up I didn't see my body represented in the outdoor media that I consumed and that made me believe that I didn't belong there. Now I'm here and very much fat AND outdoorsy. If being a hiker, rock climber, biker, camper, or any of those outdoor ventures sounds exciting, but you don't think you belong there because you're in a bigger body? Let me show you that that isn't true. We all deserve to be fat and in the wild if that's where we want to be.

Trigger Warnings: mentions of specific size or weight, fatphobia

12:30 pm – Drawing fat bodies!

As an artist that almost exclusively draws fat bodies, it is my passion to teach others what I have had to learn on my own. Most from-life drawing classes are centered around drawing exclusively thin bodies, occasionally midsize. This is a fabulous workshop for people of all skill levels and art backgrounds to come together and draw fat bodies. This workshop might feature a live model, come prepared for a fun learning experience!

Trigger Warnings: sexual content, mention of specific weights, mention of specific sizes, artistic representations of fat bodies

2:00 pm – Fat, Femme & Fucked: Pleasure Focused Sex for Women in Larger Bodies

In this one hour panel, hosted by AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, Noelle Benach, LCPC, CST, attendees will debunk the myth that fat folks don’t have good sex in order to re-write an empowered narrative informed by the concepts of fat-positivity and body sovereignty. Participants will have the opportunity to explore their own relationship with pleasure and discuss means of accessing desire and arousal through various means. Attendees also explore how pleasure and erotism may be enhanced through the use of sex toys and accessories that are specifically designed with larger bodies in mind. Following the presentation, participants can engage in a question/answer session with Noelle.

Trigger Warnings: sexual content, mental health

3:30 pm – A Tale of Two Cons: The peaks and pitfalls of creating your own Fat Liberation event (ft. Philly Fat Con)

5:00 pm – Coming out Fat

You're not a skinny person trapped in a fat person's body who just needs to find the right diet! You're fat and you deserve to love every inch of your fat body and take up space doing what you love. Lindsay Johnson, aka Fantastical Fatty, is a fat joy activist who began their fat liberation journey in 2019 after decades of weight cycling to the point of obsession. When Lindsay finally let go of the pursuit of thinness and made peace with being fat, it was now so obvious how we've all been taught our entire lives that being fat is bad.

Spoiler alert: That means we can also train our minds to see our bodies as powerful, beautiful, and strong exactly as they are right now. Lindsay's invitation to reframe the way you view your body as powerful, strong, and worthy will help you come at as fat so you can ditch any lingering obsessions with thinness and finally live your best, fat joy life!

Trigger Warnings: mention of specific size/weight, dieting, ED, mental health, fatphobia, traumas

Panels 3

12:00 pm – 101 Ways to Lose the Weight of Fat Hate: A moderated discussion

This open discussion panel, lead by Marcy Guevara-Prete and Jen Wilder of the Plus Bus and other leaders looking to take the shame and negativity out of the fat experience, explores ways to embrace our fatness and break out of the cycle of self-loathing to live as happy fat humans. How do we expand our own ideas about what it means to be fat and change the world around us for the better?

Trigger Warnings: mentions of specific size/weight

2:30 pm – Saucye West

Two Big Blondes Shuttle

Shuttle #1:

Pick up at 10:30 AM, Drop Off at 1:00 PM

Shuttle #2:

Pick Up at 1:00 PM, Drop Off at 3:30 PM