2008 NOLOSE Conference Announced
I'm proud to share the news that the 2008 NOLOSE conference has been announced! I'll turn the mic over to Stefanie, who posted about it in the Forums:
The date has been set! Mark your calendars for NOLOSE '08: September 26th through the 28th (Friday-Sunday). Meet us by the pool at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in Northampton, Massachusetts for a weekend packed with fattastic fun, food, friends and other good stuff!
We're all hard at work, planning to make this year's conference the best ever! There are a lot of exciting things in the works. The Clarion has charm, a great location and a staff that is already excited to hang out with all of us. As always, choosing a venue was no easy feat. We have a very diverse population and we have lots of factors to take into consideration. All in all, we are pretty psyched about the Clarion, and we are sure most of you will be too.
Keep your eyes open for more detailed information about the conference as it becomes available and, as always, if you have some ideas about what you'd like to see at NOLOSE this year, let us know! Expect to see a call for workshops in the very near future, because that's how we roll.
For more information about NOLOSE and to keep up with the calendar and new information about the upcoming conference, please visit nolose.org.
NOLOSE is a volunteer- run organization dedicated to ending the oppression of fat people and creating vibrant fat queer culture. NOLOSE started out as the National Organizations for Lesbians of SizE. As the years passed and the organization grew, we changed our mission to include not only a broader community of queer women—dykes, lesbians and bisexual women—but also transgendered people.
NOLOSE and the annual NOLOSE Conference are explicitly trans-inclusive. We want to make it clear that NOLOSE invites all fat queer women, all fat trans and gender-variant folks and our allies to participate.
NOLOSE has done an amazing amount of pro-fat work, and it's great to see another conference out there.
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Posted by paul on March 30, 2008
So...There is a whole contingent of gay and trans people working on fat acceptance and they aren't telling us they feel "excluded" for some totally obscure reason...instead they are holding a conference.
Yeah I like that.
Good.
Zero isn't a size, it's a warning sign. - Carson Kressley
AM: I'm not exactly sure to what you are replying in this comment, since I know there has been a lot going on in the fat activist and acceptance worlds lately, but just fyi this will be NOLOSE's 8th (mostly annual) conference.
Also, on a personal note (ie, this comes from me and not NOLOSE), please don't use this post to take out your annoyance on any group(s), because you have no experience with how I might identify and who I might be allied with. So keep your snarkiness to yourself please.
It wasn't meant to be snarky - I really DO like it. What could be more positive than holding a conference to address specific concerns? But I won't say anymore.
Zero isn't a size, it's a warning sign. - Carson Kressley