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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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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