Welcome to the Queer Fat Femme Blog Guide to Life, chronicling Bevin Branlandingham’s relentless pursuit of joy. Featuring advice, glitter, fat fashion, travel, performance recaps, community building and sardonic anecdotes from the life of a Queer Fat Femme artist and community leader.

About Bevin:

Bevin Branlandingham’s mission is to make the world a safe place for people to love themselves, regardless of their differences.

Bevin Branlandingham is the Host and Producer of FemmeCast: The Queer Fat Femme Podcast Guide to Life. She is a flamboyant femmecee, queer high femme, drag king, burlesque and comedy performer. She co-produces and hosts Gayety, a Queer Comedy Cabaret based in New York City. She is Head Madam of the Femme Family, the New York Chapter of the Femme Mafia, and on the steering committee for the Fat and Queer conference. In 2008 Bevin received a Commendation from the Mayor of Jersey City for her work with the LGBT community. She was a founding member and producer of the Royal Renegades of Philadelphia, a drag troupe that performed throughout the US and Canada. Her writing has been featured in the Gender Matters newsletter, Kingdom Magazine, the Gender Bent Zine, among others. She has presented and performed at numerous national events including the 2008 Femme Conference, NOLOSE Conferences, the Femme Mafia Masquerade in Atlanta, GA, Mr. Drag King Philadelphia and several of the International Drag KingCommunity Extravaganzas since 2002. Her interests include travel, knitting, music, her shih tzu and community building.

She is best described as “Equal parts glitter, cupcakes, good genes and Sephora.”

Her website (including blog, calendar of events and workshops) is found at QueerFatFemme.Com.

She also blogs at The Femme’s Guide to Absolutely Everything and performs throughout North America.

To book Bevin for a workshop or performance, email femmecast at gmail dot com.

Press!

Check out this interview with Bevin on Charlotte Cooper’s blog from June, 2009.

Bevin Branlandingham on fat activism in Reuters! Obesity becoming U.S civil rights issue for some, April 28, 2009.

Bevin in Time Out New York on how to meet fat girls in NYC. February 12, 2009.

Video!

Bevin Femmeceeing the Femmes of Power Launch Party in Atlanta, GA, July, 2009.

Bevin Femmeceeing the Kentucky Fried Woman Show, March 2009.

Bevin performing Draglesque at the Kentucky Fried Woman Show, March 2009.

Bevin performing her “Cupcakes: Growing Up a Queer Fat Femme” at her show Cupcake Cabaret, San Francisco, CA, March 2009
There’s a surprise ending so you just get a teaser here. See it live!!

Thanks to Joie Rey Cohen of Film*Art*Gender for the videography!!

Bevin hosting Speaking of Femme at the Femme Conference, Chicago, IL, August 2008.