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CHEWING THE FATT

I’ve always described Fatt as the illegitimate love child of Elton John and Pam St Clement; Pat Butcher is obviously a style icon, and as someone who doesn’t have hair and doesn’t tend to wear wigs very often, I was, like, right, I’m going to wear loads of massive earrings!

Fatt is larger than life and fat positive, and I mean that, not body positive, as I think that as a concept is very limp. She started as a parody of the way that skinny people behave, and I did that because I felt like, as a fat person in the queer community, there are these really heavily policed body standards. I was getting tired of seeing white twinks go and behave however they wanted to, suddenly entitled to or feeling entitled to take up so much

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