She answered her own question within seconds. The longtime fan and patron of strip clubs explains, "That's not to say that there aren't fat strippers, but I just know that, from my experience, it's not something you see a lot at strip clubs, to see larger women. Putting out a call for interested collaborators, she found Elizabeth Flores , 28, and Linda Douglas , 27, and the body positive strip show, Thicc Strip — coined by Douglas — which debuted last December in Los Angeles, where the organizing team is based. This weekend, the trio hosts the event's second edition, again in LA. Presenting a varied show, from style of performance to the diversity of people performing, Thicc Stripp will give "the spotlight and the literal stage to people that are traditionally marginalized, when it comes to fat bodies, disabled bodies, black and brown bodies," Douglas adds.
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As a writer and comedian in Los Angeles, much of her work centres on body positivity and fat acceptance, but she recognizes a disconnect between internet body positivity — which often begins and ends with a faux-inspirational hashtag — and true fat acceptance offline. She began collaborating with body positive advocate Linda Douglas and community organiser Elizabeth Flores on a live interactive event that would bring online body positive activism to life in an unapologetic, provocative showcase. The three also share a love of strip clubs and strippers, which is rooted firmly in sex and sex work positivity, but felt that a typical strip club might not offer them a chance to actually be one. In , the three co-founded Thicc Strip, a live strip show in Los Angeles celebrating shameless sexuality and body positivity. You're completely showing yourself. Courtesy of Thicc Strip Far from a coy burlesque show or dainty striptease, performers in various states of undress danced with cellulite and body hair of all kinds on full display, a complete departure from the faux-inspirational messaging body acceptance posturing prevalent in many body positive circles. Thicc Strip is an overt and explicitly sexual performance collective working to actively counter the social and cultural messaging that fat bodies are undesirable or asexual.