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How to be a fat activist in five minutes a day

How to be a fat activist in five minutes a day

At Camp Boom recently, I did a talk called How to be a fat activist in five minutes a day. I would like everyone to have access to this information,  livestreamed my talk from Camp Boom, and here's the video. If you'd rather read about it than watch it, a full transcript is below, and you can access the slides from my talk here. Transcript I'm Jo. I run the House of Boom. I created Camp Boom. I hope you know these things already - I would be quite worried if you didn't! So my talk that I decided that...

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Camp Boom 2022 in the news

The lovely Kylie Klein-Nixon, who had previously written about the fat swim, talked to me about Camp Boom  Fat babes assemble!' - Camp Boom returns to the capital ... "I was thinking about winding up House of Boom because I was just so tired, but then Cat Pausé's death reignited the spark in me of making sure her legacy fat activism, [understanding] why fat community and fat joy is so important, continues. "And to be honest I was trying to get over a broken heart and I needed another distraction for my brain, so I thought f... it, I'll bring...

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Camp Boom is back!

Camp Boom is back!

It is happening again. Camp Boom - a weekend of fun with fat babes like you - is taking place in Wellington on 26 & 27 November, and I think you might like to come along.  Camp Boom is for fat women & fat gender minorities, age 18+.  At Camp, you’ll be safe. You’ll be in a fun, wonderful space. We hope you’ll come away energised and maybe with a new friend or two.  We’ll celebrate you, your body and our fabulous fat community – not in a cliched “here’s a quote to post on Instagram” kind of way, but...

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Cancelling Camp Boom

I’m so sorry to announce that I’ve made the absolutely heartbreaking decision that there will be no Camp Boom 2021. 

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Why you should join us for Camp Boom in February 2022

For those of you who'd rather watch a video than read a bunch of writing, here's me talking about Camp Boom. Captions are autogenerated, I hope to edit them tomorrow cos I'm due in bed right about now. For those who prefer to read, here's the basics COMMUNITY It's incredibly powerful to be completely surrounded by people who look like you, who've experienced similar marginalisations and shitty things, and who also have positive experiences to share too. SPEAKERS Check out the full (i think) impressive list of who we're hearing from (and more information on all these talks is of...

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