Scene: Toronto Pride Week, June 2012. The Gladstone Hotel ballroom was filled to capacity for an event co-sponsored by Rainbow Health Ontario and various faculties at Ryerson University. Charlotte Cooper, famed activist, scholar, artist, and blogger, was the keynote speaker for an evening exploring “The Queerness of Fat Activism.” Small children ran up and down the aisles while rounded bodies, filling out the best of plus- sized fashion, strutted in and out of conversation, blowing kisses to each other across the crowd. A local artist was selling out of T-shirts and posters that featured erotic sketches of fat nudes used in the event’s publicity. And if I may, dear reader, the sexual energy of the room could have scorched the walls.

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