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I AM THE WRITER AND DIRECTOR of the film No Fats, No Femmes. My practice considers those [of us] discarded (“the least of these”) and disappeared from Black collective imaginings and networks of care.
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Fresh from her appearance in the second season of Pose, queer multidisciplinary artist Fatima Jamal landed in Florence to take the runway at Stefano Pilati’s AW20 Random Identities show. Taking place in the Italian city’s longest standing train station, the venue was turned into a pulsating underground club bathed in red light, with Jamal taking her turn in a black sequined sheath gown, alongside the likes of Lux Gillespie and Pilati himself.
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While shows like Pose, Euphoria and Work in Progress reflect a moment of unprecedented trans, and broader LGBTQ2, representation in Hollywood, some members of the community, like Fatima Jamal, are rightfully skeptical. It’s not that she isn’t thankful or appreciative of the historic strides that have been and are continuing to be made. Rather, the model, artist and filmmaker questions visibility for visibility’s sake.
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Fatima Jamal is the “Fat, Black and Trans” powerhouse here to let the children know that this is not a game.
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The choice to cast Jamal, known by her moniker "FatFemme" to many, is historic in that rarely has a designer of Pilati's caliber ever chosen a Black, trans woman to walk the runway for a menswear institution as prestigious as Pitti Uomo (or any men's fashion week, for that matter.) She had nothing but high marks for Pilati, whom she praised in a recent Instagram post. Read more here!
At Pitti Immagine Uomo, the Italian designer and former Yves Saint Laurent creative director speaks to Vogue about style with intellect and why the future of fashion is gender-free — before unveiling his latest collection.
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My experience as a trans model is interesting. Beyond the transness, I would say that it is complicated by being plus size. I've been told that I'm very niche and will only book trans-specific work, which, in my opinion, lacks imagination and is super limiting.
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Fatima Jamal is trans, fat, femme, and Black. She's also an interdisciplinary artist whose work centers her own body in opposition to cis, white, and straight size ideas of beauty and desirability. Through her work, Jamal disrupts. And now, Jamal is disrupting your regular beauty programming in Sephora's Identify As We campaign— and taking the art she's been creating and combining it with the retailer's new, inclusive mission.
The Identify As We campaign is a continuation of Sephora's newly launched We Belong To Something Beautiful company platform. The company's new, inclusive vision brought with it a new manifesto for the major retailer and a commitment to making all people feel welcome shopping its stores.
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To celebrate the launch of Maison Margiela’s Mutiny fragrance, I-D is spotlighting the voices and talents of bold iconoclasts. Through their creative endeavours and by speaking out on the issues that matter to them, this group are challenging archaic norms and exploring diverse concepts of identity.
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The work of a bad bitch is hard, but it must be done. Model, filmmaker, and other hyphenates, Fatima is a world-class creator with a radical attention to social justice, sexual racism, and desirability politics, as shown in her ongoing documentary project, No Fats No Femmes. Her Instagram feed, though, is pure fashion goals and you will get your whole damn life each time she graces you with a photo.
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Fatima Jamal poses at Telfar SS2019 After Party
A multi-hyphenate in every sense of the word, 28-year-old Jamal is an artist, a dancer, a model, a filmmaker, a writer, and an activist, although she is probably best known for her work as “FatFemme,” her handle on Instagram and in viral circles of the Internet that originated with her ongoing documentary, No Fats No Femmes. In the documentary, the Brooklyn-based artist uses her life and experiences as a black queer femme as both performance art and the platform to explore what it means to not only survive but thrive in a world that others you.
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Fatima Jamal’s confidence is infectious. In life and on social media, the artist and dancer boldly asserts her presence, unbothered by any opinions but her own. Her self-assuredness comes, in part, from her journey towards self-acceptance, and when Jezebel sat with her at her home in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, last month, it became immediately clear that now is her time to shine.
Jamal has made a cottage industry of the idea of “FatFemme,” a reference to her ongoing documentary project, “No Fats No Femmes.” It’s a visual protest against the biases of being fat, disabled or having HIV within the LGBTQ community. Through that work, as well as her transfixing Instagram, her persona has grown within New York City’s ballroom community, which has helped her land appearances on FX’s popular Pose. She’s also been spotted on the best and most interesting/inclusive runways of New York Fashion Week, sporting brands like Telfar and modeling for Gypsy Sport.
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Artist and writer Fatima Jamal burst onto the scene with her groundbreaking documentary No Fats, No Femmes, analyzing rejection and otherness within the LGBTQ+ community. Jamal made her modeling debut this past February for Gypsy Sport's Fall/Winter ’18 runway show, and continues to walk for the label. She was recently featured in the campaign for Telfar’s vegan shopping bag line.
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Fashion has a strange fascination with shopping bags. We all remember Louis Vuitton’s controversial take on plaid Chinatown totes, while Vaquera and Public School have straight-up repurposed plastic bags from Key Food and corner stores. Telfar’s unisex vegan tote, called — what else — the Shopping Bag — has an identity all its own. Stamped with Telfar Clemens’s TC logo, it’s one of the brand’s most iconic pieces, and certainly one of its most covetable.
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Telfar Clemens, the savvy, smart talent behind the New York label Telfar, could do a lot after he won the 2017 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, including being able to put back into production his Shopping Bag, a vegan leather tote in different sizes branded with a T for . . . well, no need to ask, “What’s the T?” here.
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We at them. not only believe that queer people are heroes, but that we are heroic precisely because we live in a world that doesn’t consider us valuable, yet still find ways to prosper and care for each other in that world every day. These are our 2018 queer heroes — Queeroes — outstanding LGBTQ+ people who make our community stronger. Queero Fatima Jamal talks about cultivating power from within, and embracing ourselves as we are.
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Gioncarlo Valentine
Fatima Jamal is a renaissance woman; she sings, writes, acts, produces, directs, and does all of them incredibly well. She puts those talents to incredible use advancing gender equality and racial justice, making strong statements about sexual racism and desirability politics, and modeling what Black artistic excellence can look like today.
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