Ask a Body-Positive Creator: Illustrator and Artist Anni Winder
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Ask a Body-Positive Creator: Illustrator and Artist Anni Winder

Anni Jyn is here to create art that might make you feel good about yourself, be kind to others or hopefully make you do a little laugh if the situation calls for it! Tell me about you! What’s your name? What pronouns do you use? Where do you live? What do you like to eat…

Ask a Fat Creator: Body-Positive Bath & Beauty Whiz Gloria Procella
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Ask a Fat Creator: Body-Positive Bath & Beauty Whiz Gloria Procella

Hi, I’m Gloria, or Glow! I’m one of the creators of Cranky Shop (formerly, Cranky Crafty Cat Ladies). I’m the chief soapmaker and bath bomb wizard, and I’m generally the public face of our operation. I live southeast of Seattle with my husband, tweenager, and lots of pets. When I’m not dreaming up new sudsy…

Ask a Fat Creator: Artist Shelby Bergen
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Ask a Fat Creator: Artist Shelby Bergen

Shelby Bergen is an illustrator and cat enthusiast from the suburbs outside of the Twin Cities. She loves using bright colors, patterns and shapes in her work, and loves making fun character designs. Shelby prides herself in keeping her work diverse, focusing on showcasing different types and sizes of bodies. When Shelby isn’t making art,…

Ask a Fat Creator: Artist and Activist Kathryn Max
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Ask a Fat Creator: Artist and Activist Kathryn Max

2021 update: Kathryn says of herself, β€œShe’s queer now and getting a divorce! Thanks Fat liberation!!!!” Kathryn Max is a Body Liberation Artist and Activist living in Oakland CA. She credits making fat art with helping her cultivate a kind and compassionate relationship with her own body. Kathryn is currently working on her memoir β€œFat…

Ask a Fat Creator: Artist Jiji Knight
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Ask a Fat Creator: Artist Jiji Knight

Jiji Knight is a lover of magic, ladies, and breakfast for dinner. Graphic designer by day and illustrator by night, she’s a champion of body positivity, uniter of the cute and macabre, and overall dedicates her body of work to women. She studied illustration at the Academy of Art in beautiful San Francisco and currently…

Ask a Fat Creator: Yoga Therapist and Artist Manager Krystal Thompson
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Ask a Fat Creator: Yoga Therapist and Artist Manager Krystal Thompson

Krystal Thompson of The Luscious Life helps people struggling with their relationship with their body and their relationship with food. Working as a Yoga Therapist over the past 9 years, she has been dedicated to educating, empowering and assisting individuals so that they can take an active role in their healing and wellness. Lately her…

Ask a Fat Creator: Graphic Designer and Fat Activist Rachelle Abellar
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Ask a Fat Creator: Graphic Designer and Fat Activist Rachelle Abellar

Rachelle Abellar is a graphic designer, fat activist, and body liberation advocate. She is the founder of PNW Fattitude, a group that hosts events for people of size in the Pacific Northwest. She also runs Archive Six, a small press and zine distro that carries work centering indie art, social justice, feminism, WOC, intersectionality, fat…

The Body Love Box Supports Its 20th Marginalized Artist

The Body Love Box Supports Its 20th Marginalized Artist

For Immediate Release           August 1, 2019 Shelbey Osborne        [email protected] THE BODY LOVE BOX SUPPORTS ITS 20TH MARGINALIZED ARTIST Fat-Positive Subscription Box Supporting Marginalized Artists and Small Business Owners  SEATTLE, WASHINGTON –The Body Love Box is celebrating working with over 20 marginalized and small business owners since the…