NAAFA Celebrates LGBT2QIA+ Pride!
Friday, June 20, 2025
5:30pm PT / 6:30pm MT / 7:30pm CT / 8:30pm ET
Duration: 2 hours
Image Description: Both slides are on a light blue background with clouds, a rainbow, and stars. Slide 1 features various Pride flags. The text reads: “NAAFA Presents Virtual Pride Party. An affinity space for fat LGBT2QIA+ people only. Friday, June 20th, 5:30pm PT / 6:30pm MT / 7:30pm CT / 8:30pm ET. Free! Register at naafa.org/events"
JOIN US TO CELEBRATE PRIDE! EVENT IS FREE!!
Join NAAFA in celebrating LGBT2QIA+ Pride! We're having a virtual Pride party on Friday, June 20th at 5pm PT.
Enjoy the company of other fat LGBT2QIA+ people*, play bingo, and brazenly celebrate fat joy!
Our virtual events are offered free of charge thanks to the generosity of our community of NAAFA donors. This virtual 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. Our webinars and virtual events are offered to the community free of charge thanks to the generosity of those who give to NAAFA. To support this and other NAAFA programming, visit naafa.org/give.
*This is an affinity space for fat LGBT2QIA+ people only.
Image Description: A headshot of Bree
Co-Host Bios:
Bree (they/them) is an unapologetically fat, neurodivergent, and disabled queerdo who’s been organizing community spaces and shouting about all things fat since 2009. Their activism takes many forms, from zines and online advocacy, to their master’s thesis about fat body image and empowerment. Bree is now a peer counselor who specializes in supporting fat folks and is dedicated to creating fat-only spaces, like their Fat AF! Peer Support Space and NAAFA’s Fat Fridays. They live in Los Angeles where they love thrifting, watching Drag Race, and doing witchy stuff. Find Bree online at breeishelpfulaf.com and @breeishelpfulaf.
Image Description (provided by guest): A picture of a tamil person wearing a black turtleneck top and black pants, seated down amongst plants on a high stool. Holding a clipboard.
Ratna (they/them) is a tamil, fat, queer activist based in Malaysia. They are the co-founder of @myfatsquad which is a fat positive community in Malaysia. They also spend their time by creating content entered around fat liberation. One of their work also includes plus size fashion and sustainability. They were a small business owner that focused on plus size fashion and that was their entry into body positivity that in later years have evolved into fat liberation work. They can be found on Instagram @sapphiresplendour
Image Description: A headshot of Tamra
Tamra Lamese Garland (she/her) is a certified life coach, writer, speaker, emcee, serial entrepreneur, and fat activist. She owns and operates Dozeland Creative and Tamra Lamese Mindset and Mindfulness Coach. Her coaching is dedicated to helping people transform the way they see themselves and how they interact with the world. Using techniques and tools backed by science and elevated through spiritual practices with dashes of accountability and planning, she guides her clients from negative body image, anxiety, stress, overwhelm, and self-loathing, to clarity, inner peace, lots of self-love and confidence, and a tangible plan of action. She volunteers on the board of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) as Social Media Director and has helped establish major corporate partnerships and pass important legislation to help the fat community. Tamra has a gift for transforming any person, place, or situation into its best form.
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