Stacy Bias

Stacy Bias is an activist, college speaker and entrepreneur located in the Pacific Northwest. Stacy is a queer activist and a fat activist, though lately she prefers the term "Anti-Shame Advocate."

At the heart of Stacy's activism is the idea that all beings are worthy of love, from self and others, and that shame is a sinister and lucrative tool employed to ensure a steady stream of faithful and desperate consumers.

Stacy believes that fitness and fatness are not mutually exclusive. Further, Stacy believes that fitness is not the sole measure of worth for an individual and that all individuals, regardless of fitness level, are entitled to equal access to medical care and basic human rights.

It is Stacy's ultimate goal to empower individuals of all sizes towards greater self-love, whatever that looks like for them; to explore the seedy underbelly of consumer culture and the holes it digs in our self-esteem each day in efforts to turn us against one another and, ultimately, sell us product; to humanize one another, TO one another, in an effort to bring compassion, a greater understanding for the vast diversity of our human race, and to encourage and support bridge-building over the many intersections of multiple "isms" because racism, sexism, sizeism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia and classism are all related issues. We stand to learn so much from one another if we begin to communicate our stories and release our shame and judgment.

Stacy's current projects include The Fat Experience Project (thefatexperience.com - an oral, visual and written history project which seeks to be a humanizing force in body image activism,) BelliesAreBeautiful.com (a body-positive photo gallery of images of the oft-maligned belly,) FatGirl Speaks (fatgirlspeaks.com - a bi-annual conference and performance in Portland, OR featuring women of size,) DykeTees.Com and RadFatties.Com (t-shirt stores with political and humorous designs) and ChunkyDunk PDX (chunkydunkpdx.com - a fat-positive swim party that takes place regularly in the summer months.) Stacy's day job is manager of HostBaby.Com - web hosting for musicians.