FAT!SO?
Subtitle: Burn! Baby! Burn! : The revolutionary issue
By: Marilyn Wann
Series: Fat? So!
Publisher: The author
Published: 1994
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Interviews; Discrimination against overweight women
Description: This fat power zine aims to dispel the stigma surrounding being "overweight." In addition to editor Wann's writings, multiple people share short essays about their weight issues, including a diatribe against Covert Bailey and dealing with familial pressure to lose weight. There are also contributed poems about being fat. The issue features an article discussing weight discrimination in the workplace and an interview with Daniel Pinkwater, host of NPR's All Things Considered, about his weight and his novel, The Afterlife Diet.
Notes: 245 updated added item to SC 2013 kb
Table of contents: title: ain't FAT!SO?; title: grand shameless self-promotion -- -- contents; title: you are here -- -- letters; title: "appalling and juvenile" -- -- editor's note; title: all that's fat to print -- -- manifesto #1; title: the FAT!SO? revolution! -- -- interview; title: DAniel Pinkwater & the afterlife -- -- BMI; title: the body mass index of fat culture -- fiction; title: 5 lbs. of animal fat -- -- cut & paste; title: the incredible Oprah flipbook -- -- manifesto #2; title: revolutionary excerpt -- -- photo essay; title: the belly -- news; title: the good, the bad & the indigestible -- -- big fat truths; title: real-life tales of wit & woe -- -- manifesto #3; title: calling all college counselors! -- -- poems; title: "these thighs inspire sighs" -- -- shocking expose; title: fatso's on the job -- -- roseanne sighting; title: circa 1984 -- -- obit; title: John Candy -- -- aunt agony; title: advice & attitude -- -- wendy from snapple; title: "a fine babe" -- -- buy! buy! buy!; title: t-shirts, butt posters & paper dolls.