Content Warning: We go deep with TaLynn Kel, we talk about eating disorders, sex work, medical discrimination, Intentional Weight Loss.

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In this episode we chat with TaLynn Kel a self-published author and cosplayer whose cosplay has been featured in the New York Times and on NBC, TaLynn Kel is a multi-media content creator and curator located in Atlanta, Georgia. An avid cultural critic, TaLynn has published numerous essays on her intersectional identity as a fat, Black, femme geek. Prior to the pandemic, TaLynn conducted educational panels at conventions throughout the U.S. and co-created Black Girl Geek Out with Kecia Stovall, an event centering Black women and non-binary creatives in the Atlanta area.

In addition to writing and cosplaying, TaLynn published two essay books, Breaking Normal: Essays about My Fat, Black, Geek Life and Still Breaking Normal: A Fat, Black, Femme, Geek Navigating an Anti-Black World, available on Amazon. She co-hosts the podcast New Wakanda with comic creator Dedren Snead and has written her first graphic short story for the Kamikaze comic anthology, Short Circuits that will come out later in 2021. She and Kecia Stovall are also creating a documentary with the working title The Space Between: Celebrating Black Womxn in Geekdom. 

You can find her work at www.talynnkel.com and on all the geriatric social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Patreon, and Only Fans and for more information on The Space Between, please visit http://bit.ly/WomxnGeekdom.

We read from Fat Girls in Black Bodies by Joy Arlene Renee Cox, PhD

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645672/fat-girls-in-black-bodies-by-joy-arlene-renee-cox-phd/?fbclid=IwAR2igIFzYR2hP86IWcQKF5BlJAhnvyfnQrVijvQYbb2qs4d02ZfWD55NKZM

We talk about everything from cosplay, OnlyFans, comic writing, dating while fat, conscious media consumption, Hamilton, Black Panther, Diet Culture, the hypersexualization of Black femmes, lingerie shopping and what Talynn loves about their body.

Music by Asepirawan 20 on Pixabay

In this episode Mermaid Chè Monique chats with Montara the Manatee Mermaid. Use code ManateeMermaid to save 12% on Kawaii Cutie styled shirts. https://societyoffatmermaids.com/discount/ManateeMermaid?redirect=%2Fcollections%2Fkawaii-cutie

We start the episode reading an excerpt from, “Four Reasons Why We Need Fat Liberation” in Wear Your Voice Magazine.  https://www.wearyourvoicemag.com/4-reasons-why-we-need-fat-liberation/

Society of Fat Mermaids founder Chè Monique chats with reps from FinFun Mermaid at MerMagic Con 2020.

*This was recorded in a noisy hotel lobby, so the audio is imperfect, apologies.*

Kylie and Samantha talk with Chè about the Elite Line (which has now launched), FinFun's Size range, Custom Tails and The history of FinFun.

FinFun believes that, "Everyone Deserves to Dream."