Fat Femme – Beth Ditto

Beth Ditto is a “fat femme” icon!

Beth Ditto dons the cover of this month’s Out Magazine and she is fantastic (although there are rumblings of her displeasure with the shots)!

A hero in the Fat Acceptance movement, leader, Bevin Branlandingham of FemmeCast told LezStyle that “in Beth Ditto…I saw an out, queer fat femme owning her sexuality and hotness and never apologizing for it.  Seeing someone else do it who was younger than me only inspired me to hurry up and get through my fat shame and start making something of myself.  As she’s gotten more media exposure, I’ve seen Beth challenge notions of ‘cute’, ‘pretty’ and ‘fashionable’ in really hysterical ways. She’s a brave and amazing artist.”

This weekend Bevin and her Femme family will put on the fat girl flea market. If you miss the flea market, but are in the NYC area, please go to Re/Dress NYC, this store is a buy * sell * trade resale establishment for women sizes 14 and over.

The thing is that Ditto isn’t special because of her size, she’s special in spite of it. The fat acceptance movement, like the LGBT pride movement, has been fighting the good fight for a while and continues to make small steps toward actual acceptance.

What Beth delivers, though, is something that the mainstream does not usually show. Beth is her own star, she is not the side-kick of the pretty girl or the comic relief. She is talented on her own merit and that makes her confidence shine through.