By: Vanessa

In reply to Fat queer with feelings.

I appreciate your feedback a lot! I can’t tell from your comment if you were at A-Camp this year or not, but either way, please know that I hear you and I would love for the event to continue growing and becoming more inclusive. As a smaller fat person, I am very aware of the privilege I have when shopping at places like ModCloth, and I would really love to leverage the success of this particular event (which was the very first one we’ve ever tried! We had no idea if it would work out at all! I am proud of it even if it’s not perfect!) to make future events more inclusive to fat queers of ALL sizes. In my dream world, multiple brands would donate clothes, we’d have a LOT more diversity in sizing, and we’d also have a lot more diversity in options for folks of all gender expressions. We didn’t intend for the party to skew so femme-centric, but the truth is ModCloth’s brands are often very femme leaning, and since they are literally the only company that has ever offered to donate free clothes to A-Camp, I remain very grateful to them, because without them this event wouldn’t have happened. I think the next step is having other plus size companies do the same, if they can afford to – that’s my personal dream.

But I want you to know that in spite of my joy at the way this event turned out, I do hear you, I do agree with you, and we are ALWAYS striving to make A-Camp as a whole as well as this particular workshop the most inclusive space it can be. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. <3