Fat Liberation Month Wrap Party & Virtual Auction Finale

Sunday, August 31, 2025

4:00pm PT / 5:00pm MT / 6:00pm CT / 7:00pm ET

Duration: 1 hour

Our 5th Fat Liberation Month has been full of friendship and fun, support and solidarity, and caring community. What better way to wrap up the summer than with one big virtual party that includes all of those things and more! Join us Sunday, August 31st at 4:00pm Pacific for our final Fat Liberation Month 2025 event and the finale of our Virtual Auction. Host Ronald Young Jr (@ohitsbigron) will emcee a fun hour including performances by songstrix Rawiyah Tariq, special appearances by some of our auction donors, and interactive activities. Register at naafa.org/events. Don’t forget, the auction closes during the party! You don’t have to be present to win your auction item, but it’ll be a lot more fun if you are! Bid now on your favorite items at naafa.org/auction. 

NAAFA events are for fat people and fat-positive friends of all sizes. Our virtual events are offered free of charge thanks to the generosity of our community of NAAFA donors. To support this and other NAAFA programming, visit naafa.org/give.

This event is presented via Zoom, in English, and with English auto-captions by Otter.ai. ASL Interpreting by Pro Bono ASL.

The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance is a 501(c)3 charitable organization with a mission to change perceptions of fat and to end size discrimination through advocacy, education, and support.

GUEST BIOS

[Image Description: A headshot of Ronald Young Jr.]

Ronald Young Jr. (he/him) is an audio producer, storyteller and host based in Alexandria, VA. He created and produces the podcast Weight For It, A narrative show about navigating the world as a fat person. 

An official Tribeca Selection in 2023 Weight For It has received accolades from Vulture, Vogue, and The New York Times.  Weight For It was also awarded a historic three Podcast Academy Awards in 2024 including Best Society and Culture Podcast, Best Indie Podcast and Best Indie Podcast Host, and another in 2025 for Best Podcast Host

Ronald is also an avid pop-culture enthusiast; he's a regular contributor to NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour, and can frequently be seen on Fox 5’s Good Day DC dishing on the latest celebrity gossip.  He is also currently the host of the film review podcast Leaving the Theater.  

In the past, Ronald has hosted Pop Culture Debate Club from Lemonada and the BBC, Pushkin’s Solvable, HBO Docs Club, from Pineapple Street Studios, and Slate’s Working podcast.  Selected as Vulture Magazine podcaster to watch, 2023, he is passionate about social justice and equity and helped to tell historical and present accounts of black folks throughout American history with his work on Seizing Freedom from VPM, and Black History Year from Pushblack.

If you have a great idea that you’d like to collaborate with Ronald on, contact him here. Follow him @ohitsbigron

Rawiyah Tariq (they/them) has danced on stages throughout the country with the award winning and internationally traveled troupe Rubenesque Burlesque as Magnoliah Black from 2009 to 2015. As a solo performer their work (often preformed on mainstream stages) continues to reflect body liberation, visibility and self possession beyond the static sizest and often racist Eurocentric beauty myth. Rawiyah was celebrity model for the first annual Queer Fashion Week in 2015 & 2016, Curvy Girl Lingerie and has been photo’d for Curve magazine in Bertha Pearl’s Size Queen Fashions.

A former member of Santa Clara County Leather Association since and former Associate Producer of Red Hots Burlesque the country’s longest running queer burlesque & cabaret show Rawiyah has worked to create and maintain space for artists and players of diverse backgrounds and talents.

As a past Board Member of good standing and FeMCee of The Body Political and contributing co-founder of A Sovereign Embodiment Healing Collective. As the ASE Collective’s Certified Massage Therapist they focus on QTPOC, Disabled, Elderly, Fat and Other’ed bodies. Their prices are set support low income community. They offer barter and trade options as well as free monthly massages to community members in need. For more see A Sovereign Embodiment.

They have facilitated and spoken at events such as Baycon, NOLOSE, Fat Activist Conference: Tools for the Revolution , Fatty Affair, Pantheacon, Mystic South and The Northwest Pagan Conference.  They have spoken at several universities including Berkeley, Stanford and San Jose State regarding intersectionality, sex, fat, feminism and health. As a producer and presenter they consciously centers marginalized groups for spotlight appearances at events such as BayCon, Folsom Fringe and the Hubba Hubba Review.

Rawiyah’s most recent published work can be found in “The Politics of Size” co-authored with Juana Tango and edited by Ragen Chastian and their journey documented in interviews in Nia King’s “Queer and Trans Artist of Color”. As 2022’s Witch in Residence with The Modern Witches Confluence, one of Diamond Wave’s Theyfriend featured artist and recipient of Queer Cat Production’s Artist Grant Rawiyah has centered and empowered marginalized communities.

Connect to them on social media via facebook, bluesky and instagram or follow them at their sorely blog mammyisdead.com. You can also catch them as a feature in the film Fattitude and Heavenly Brown Body. Follow them @mammyisdead

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