NAAFA Celebrates LGBT2QIA+ Pride!
Saturday, June 29, 2024
3:00pM PT / 4:00pM MT / 5:00PM CT / 6:00PM 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+ folx only. Saturday, June 29th, 3pm PT / 4pm MT / 5pm CT / 6pm 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 Saturday, June 29th at 5pm PT.
Enjoy the company of other fat LGBT2QIA+ folx*, 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+ folx only.
Image Description (provided by guest): A closeup photo of Bree with a smattering of headstones behind them. Bree is a fat white person with rosy pink cheeks and a medusa (upper lip) piercing who is gently smiling. They’re wearing a black baseball hat with the bill flipped up and a black sweatshirt with a grey and black plaid collar poking out.
Co-Host Bios:
Bree (they/them) is an unapologetically fat, queer, and neurodivergent witch with a master’s degree in psychology and an eclectic background in helping people spanning 15 years. They offer sliding scale peer counseling, tarot readings, and peer support spaces in which they center collaboration and empowerment through the lenses of community psychology, feminist therapy, and fat liberation. They also host NAAFA’s Fat Fridays Virtual Social Club and teach an “Easy Tarot for Self-Care” class for the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Trans* Lounge. Learn more about Bree and their offerings at breeishelpfulaf.com and on socials @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
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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