A group of wonderful women came up with the idea for a Kiss-In outside of the Marie Claire offices. I like like like. I whipped up a press release about it. Fast and dirty, but I wanted to get the word out with speed! I know there are other Kiss-Ins planned tomorrow—feel free to use the copy at will.  

Activists Organize a Kiss-In to Protest Marie Claire Article 

New York, NY. Activists from coast-to-coast are banding together to counter a controversial post on the Marie Claire website in which the writer, Maura Kelly, shares that she’d be, “grossed out if I had to watch two characters with rolls and rolls of fat kissing each other … because I’d be grossed out if I had to watch them doing anything.”  Tomorrow, Friday, October 29th, women and men of all shapes and sizes are invited to The Big Fat Kiss-In, outside the Marie Claireoffices in NYC. 

One of the events organizers, Substantia Jones, has this to say: “A few decades ago, folks felt justified expressing their disdain for seeing black people express physical affection for one another. Similar animosity has more recently been directed at the LGBT community and the disabled. That a mainstream fashion magazine, in 2010, believes it’s okay to purvey such hate speech makes me sad and furious. And it makes me want to KISS.” Jones is creator of The Adipositivity Project (http://adipositivity.com/) which aims ”to promote size acceptance, not by listing the merits of big people, or detailing examples of excellence (these things are easily seen all around us), but rather, through a visual display of fat physicality. Her hope is to widen definitions of physical beauty. Literally.”

Another organizer, Marilyn Wann, San Francisco-based author of FAT!SO? and a weight diversity speaker, agrees: “It’s not cool or healthy to hate an entire group of people! People of all sizes suffer when this prejudice goes unchallenged. I’ll be blowing big, fat kisses from San Francisco on Friday.” 

Event Details:

You are invited to The Big Fat Kiss-In! 

Marie Claire chose to publish an essay in which the author shares her utter disgust for fat people - but moreover - physical displays of affection between said fat people. 
That being said, WE WANT YOU to join us  TOMORROW, FRIDAY OCTOBER 29, 2010 at 6:00pm outside of Marie Claire at the Hearst Building to make the statement that LOVE HAS NO WEIGHT LIMIT! 

ALL SHAPES AND SIZES! EVERYONE IS INVITED! 

(link to Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=164609923568922)