ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the intersectionality between queer sexuality and a queer fat body. It is framed by my transformation from the culturally expected role of the heterosexual slim woman who engaged in dieting and fat-hatred, to acceptance and celebration of queer sexuality and identity. The chapter is an auto ethnographic exploration; part memoir, part commentary, on the state of having a queer body and queer sexuality. The stories of that metamorphosis are used to reflect on the nature and reasons for the prejudice, both external and internalised, encountered along that journey. Dieting and shame were my normalised responses to being fat. Refusing to diet and fat acceptance or flaunting fat are a kind of 'coming out'- into a queer identity, without the internalised shame. The chapter researchs into the medical management of intersex births and she asked me to read my creative work at a queer event she was organising.
