Stuffed
Fat Pervs Unite
October 31st - December 12th, 2025
Featuring work from: Jesse Egner, Ren Buchness, Tore Hallas, BOARLORD, Zoë Schneider, Jaq Garcia
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 1st, 4:00 - 6:00PM
Unruly bodies, filth, excess, ephemeral encounters… STUFFED explores the intersection of fat and queer communities through the fantasy space of perversion. Some pieces directly engage with mythology and biblical struggle, while others make public the private of cyber intimacy. By featuring all fat, queer artists, the works in this show illuminate the vibrant communities that have blossomed at the intersection of fat liberation, queerness, and anti-imperialist struggles.
Anti-fat bias is sometimes known as ‘the last acceptable bias.’ Though this is clearly both problematic and untrue, it does highlight how deeply rooted anti-fatness is in our society, and how uncomfortable many people are with confronting it. The history of anti-fat bias has always been intertwined with systemic racism, sexism, and classism; the burden of fatness is felt most acutely by communities marginalized in other ways by capitalist imperialism.
STUFFED eschews mainstream narratives about body positivity, instead harnessing the powerful dread conjured by the obesity epidemic, and explores the intersection of fat and queer communities through the frequent framing of both as kinds of perversion. It exposes the historical and contemporary intersections of fatphobia with anti-queerness and transphobia, as outgrowths of broader cultural pathologization in modern Western medicine. By featuring all fat queer artists in order to illuminate the vibrant communities that have blossomed at the intersection of fat liberation, queerness and anti-imperialist struggles, the exhibition will queer the notion of perversion itself by reframing and embracing it as solidarity-building, specifically between fat and queer/kinky communities.
STUFFED is informed by fat studies scholars like Dr. Caleb Luna, whose work against healthist-futurism is an outgrowth of queer theorist Lee Edelman's treatise against heteronormative reproductive futurism. Luna theorizes fatness as a confrontation with one’s own mortality, which in turn inspires fear and repulsion. The exhibition contains several artworks that explore the intersections of pathologization and perversion, ephemera and pleasure. STUFFED embraces the temporary fantasy realms that are created through solidarity between fat bodies and other ‘unruly’ subjectivities.These spaces of excess don’t last–they necessarily come together for a short period of time and then decompose; don't despair! Here, temporary pleasures are celebrated for their fleeting nature. We’re all just cruising through utopia.