Artist Statement

I am fat.

I claim this identity as both personal truth and feminist resistance. To live in a body larger than the patriarchal ideal is to refuse erasure in a culture that demands that women andfolks along the gender spectrum to make themselves smaller, quieter, less visible. I reject that demand. Fatness is not a flaw to be hidden but a site ofpower, visibility, and defiance against systems that profit from ourinsecurities.

In my expansive drawings, I collaborate with individuals of marginalized genders amplifying voices historically silenced or objectified. While I center fatness as a political and aesthetic choice, my practice does not exclusively depict fat bodies. Instead,I embrace a wide spectrum of forms, affirming that all bodies deserverepresentation beyond narrow ideals of beauty. Together, we dismantle thestandards rooted in misogyny, white supremacy, and capitalism. These works reclaim the body as a site of knowledge, agency, and liberation.

My practice is an act of reclamation: a declaration that our bodies, in their infinite variations, are worthy of space, tenderness, and celebration. By centering fatness while honoring bodily diversity, I challenge the violence of exclusion and create space for radical self-love, highlighting the movement toward body liberation and collective empowerment.