Snapped at CLPP: Fashion at the 2012 conference

By Lori | Published: April 16, 2012

Maryam el Jaouhari, "Queer Fat Femme"

As you all know, Eesha and I were blogging from this year’s Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program Conference, “From Abortion Rights to Social Justice” at Hampshire College. So far, we’ve covered lots of Important Issues like colonization and colonialism. Follow the CLPP2012 tag to view all our posts.

But while I was struck by the high-quality dialogue that took place at the conference, I couldn’t help but notice another aspect of life in western Massachusetts besides the penchant for social justice and movement-building: fashion.

I’ve written before about my ambivalence towards fashion. But in this space, where so many people of all different backgrounds had come together to talk about the future of our reproductive justice movement, personal expression through fashion felt even more relevant. This was a conference to talk about the liberation of bodies, and I felt that the fashion at the conference reflected that. That’s why I chose to document some of the personal expression I witnessed at the conference through fashion. Check it out after the jump!

: Veronica Bayetti-Flores, NLIRH

: Lani Blechman, CLPP Conference Coordinator

: tk tunchez, Kim Murray

: Rae King, Terhys Persad

: Katheriyn Cole

: Melody Maleda-Ledwon, Adjunct lecturer, Hunter College & Jasmine Burnett, Aunt Betty’s Basement http://www.facebook.com/auntbettysbasement

: Lindsey Opries, NNAF & Shanelle Matthews, Forward Together. Nails credit Veronica Bayetti-Flores

: Worth a closert look. Nails credit Veronica Bayetti-Flores

: Helyx Chase

: Stephanie Alvarado, Jesica Valoris, Ebony Noelle Golden (@bettysdaughter1)

: Jewelry by Taja Lindley of Colored Girls Hustle (www.ColoredGirlsHustle.com, @cgirlshustle)

: Taja Lindley of Colored Girls Hustle (www.ColoredGirlsHustle.com, @cgirlshustle)

: Jewelry by Taja Lindley of Colored Girls Hustle (www.ColoredGirlsHustle.com, @cgirlshustle)

: Kelly Thomas

: Sophia Acevedo, Nick Anselmo

: Michelle

: Sarah Shanks, feministcampus.org

: Bethan Lamb, arfwm.org

: Jaclyn Gilstrap

: L to R: Acadia Jacob, Blair Talbot, Dana Misshula

: L to R: Acadia Jacob, Blair Talbot, Dana Misshula

: Di Sands says “Not one article of clothing I’m wearing is less than 10 years old…well maybe my shoes!”

: Julieta Paredes, Author, Machones Varones y Maricones

: Nattily Pidgeon, Rachel Harlich

: Maryam el Jaouhari, “Queer Fat Femme”

: Maryam El Jaouhari, “Queer Fat Femme”

: Maryam El Jaouhari, “Queer Fat Femme”

: Hannah Yore

: L to R: Michelle Weiser. Molly Savard, Gabrielle Newton, Michelle Tsiakaros, all of the Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Activism at Boston University [www.bu.edu/cgsa]