Join us for the WGSS Speaker Series! Snacks will be provided. Brooke Hull, a white, fat, queer, trans nonbinary designer and educator, will share their most recent publication from the Journal of Femininities titled, “Expanding Femininity: Critical, Collaborative Autoethnographic Narrative on Fat, Nonbinary Experiences.” This paper was written collaboratively with Ratnadevi Manokaran, a fat studies researcher from Malaysia. Topics include comparing experiences from the Global North and Global South, systemic fatphobia and race, the relationship between body size and gender presentation, and the concept of femme failure as an avenue for reclaiming fatness and self-worth within a patriarchal system. Hull will also share some of their design work revolving fat and queer identity to demonstrate an interdisciplinary approach to critiquing systems of oppression and creating access through visual communication.

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Brooke Hull (they/them) is a tenure-track assistant professor of graphic design, and women, gender, and sexuality studies at Penn State. Their work centers intersectional identity with an emphasis on fatness and queerness using methods such as ethnography and co-design alongside feminist, fat, and queer theory. As a designer, they use typography, publication design, data visualization, and illustration as ways to disseminate interdisciplinary knowledge and promote social justice. They have an upcoming book chapter in the collection, Feminist Digital Methods.