Dear New England,

This will be my last appearance in Massachusetts for Some Time To Come.  If you wanna get in on this action, here’s where you need to be and when.

Behold! Three fat superheroines in glorious eyeglasses swoop into Cambridge for one night to read from their own works. Let the skyline be illuminated by the brilliance of their cultural critique and honest words. Listen to their powerful fiction, memoir, and poetry pieces boom out. And be swept away on a cresting wave of fat activism, fat acceptance, and fat community.

Friday, May 24th

7:00pm-9:30pm

$10-$20* sliding scale at the door

Athenaeum Building

215 First St., Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA

Venue is accessible for people riding wheels & such.

Books for sale and to be signed by the authors.

Cash only!

Hanne Blank is a fat queer femme writer, historian, and speaker who spends her time at the crossroads of bodies, self, and culture. Joyfully spanning the town/gown divide as well as the mind/body split, her books include the cult classic sex and body-acceptance books The Unapologetic Fat Girl’s Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts (Ten Speed Press, 2012), Big Big Love: A Sex and Relationships Guide for People of Size (and Those Who Love Them) (Celestial Arts, 2011), the histories Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality (Beacon Press, 2012) and Virgin: The Untouched History (Bloomsbury, 2007), and numerous others. A new body-acceptance book, The Good Body Manifesto: A Guide To Radical Acceptance for Bodies and Those Who Have Them, is slated for 2014. Hanne lives in north-central Massachusetts and in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lesley Kinzel has been writing and activisting about body politics for most of her life, having helped lead the Fatshionista Livejournal community for several years and then moving on to her own blog, Two Whole Cakes. Lesley has also written a book, a manifesto-memoir also called Two Whole Cakes, published by The Feminist Press. It has cakes on the cover. These days you can find her writing about fattery and other subjects as Senior Editor on xoJane.com. Lesley currently lives in the Boston area with her husband and cat, where she is very fond of tea, and cardigans.

Susan Stinson is the award-winning author of the novels Fat Girl Dances With Rocks, Martha Moody and Venus of Chalk, as well as Belly Songs, a collection of poetry and lyric essays. In 2011, she was awarded the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation. Writer in Residence at Forbes Library in Northampton, Massachusetts, she is also an editor and writing coach. Alice Sebold had said, “Susan Stinson is a novelist who translates a mundane world into the most poetic of possibilities. “ Spider in a Tree, her novel about eighteenth century Northampton, is forthcoming in October 2013 from Small Beer Press. She can be found online at www.susanstinson.net.

*10 $7 scholarship seats are available to those with limited ability to pay; please email theb...@gmail.com.