Fat Camp is a young adult (YA) novel in progress. The manuscript, authored by Marty Fink and imagined for a readership of preteens, responds to the challenge of femmegimp crip theorist Loree Erickson, who asks what it would mean “to create and find places where we are appreciated and cele- brated for the very differences that are often used to justify our oppression” (2007, p. 42). The novel’s thirteen-year-olds experience fatness not as a “site of shame” (Erickson, 2007, p. 42) but as a powerful, hungry site of adolescent desire. The novel emplaces its preteen girls in a queer, trans, kinky, D/s (dominant/submissive) dance of elementary school bullying in the world of upper-middle-class Jewish private school power negotiations.

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