By Maya Dusenbery • @mayadusenbery • 9 years ago

Feministing Jamz: Plus-size fashionistas remake Beyoncé’s “***Flawless”

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Plus-size fashionistas GabiFresh, Nadia Aboulhosn, and Tess Munster give an awesome “eff you” to their fat-phobic haters in this remake of Beyoncé’s “***Flawless” video.

“This video is dedicated to the mainstream media, to the fashion industry, to internet bullies, and to anyone else who thinks it’s their right to try to make us feel less than because of their insecurities,” Gabi writes on her site. “You don’t have to be a certain size to claim your flawlessness. Fat is not a flaw.”

She also notes that teaming up with Nadia and Tess was a way to undermine the competitiveness forced on so many women: “We are not competing to be the Top Dog in our niche–we are supportive of each other and are all working toward the same goal: body positivity and inclusivity.”

That’s a goal we can all bow down to.

Maya DusenberyMaya Dusenbery is an Executive Director of Feministing.

St. Paul, MN

Maya Dusenbery is executive director in charge of editorial at Feministing. She is the author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, March 2018). She has been a fellow at Mother Jones magazine and a columnist at Pacific Standard magazine. Her work has appeared in publications like Cosmopolitan.com, TheAtlantic.com, Bitch Magazine, as well as the anthology The Feminist Utopia Project. Before become a full-time journalist, she worked at the National Institute for Reproductive Health. A Minnesota native, she received her B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. After living in Brooklyn, Oakland, and Atlanta, she is currently based in the Twin Cities.

Maya Dusenbery is an executive director of Feministing and author of the forthcoming book Doing Harm on sexism in medicine.

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