Coyote Days is a recent Portlander now residing in San Francisco. By day, she's a sassy Sex Educator and Sales Associate at Good Vibrations. By night, she's a kinky fat femme queer activist who loves nothing more than to roam the streets of her sexy new city looking for adventure. She's an instructor who teaches verbal and physical self-defense skills to women of size. She has also served twice on the fat-oppression panel for Rock and Roll Camp for Girls and was part of a fat-positive group called Moose Lodge. It is Coyote's belief that in order to fight against oppression specific to size, one must also have a clear analysis of how oppression affects our society at large when allowed to go unchecked. Having an understanding of the interconnectedness of oppression allows her to effectively promote and teach size-oppression awareness.

Nomy Lamm is a badass fatass jew dyke amputee, performance artist, writer and activist. She has written for magazines and anthologies including MS., Seventeen, "Listen Up," "Body Outlaws," and "Sex and Single Girls" (all on Seal Press). She co-wrote The Transfused, a full-length post-apocalyptic rock opera, with local band The Need, and recently toured a production called "Doctor Frockrocket's Vivifying (Re-Animatronic) Menagerie and Medicine Show." She was named one of MS. magazine's 1997 "Women of the Year," and in 2000 she was one of Out magazine's "Out 100."

Heather MacAllister is the founder of the Venus Group, a social and support network for large women, and is also known as Reva Lucian, founder of Big Burlesque/Reva Lucian's Fat-Bottom Revue, a performance group of fat artist/activists. She has conducted size acceptance workshops and/or performances nationwide. Reva Lucian and her troupe will be performing and teaching a workshop.

Cookie Tuff and Li.l Cupcake choreograph dances drawing on their inspirations from 1920s Berlin as much as carnival sideshows; Elvira and Divine as well as Bettie Page and Mae West. Whether dancing to an old Eartha Kitt song or stripping to a modern Siouxsie Sioux cover of a big band number, their combination of originality, sensuality and comedy wins crowds over. Cookie Tuff and Lil Cupcake come to the Chainsaw Chubbettes from The Original Fat Bottom revue, an award winning burlesque troupe of talented plus-size dancers. This year, the Chainsaw Chubbettes have been featured twice in the Bay Guardian, including the Best of the Bay Issue, on Entertainment Tonight, and in the Rock n' Roll Striptease film "Broad Daylight."

The Queen Bees, through drag, cabaret, burlesque, and spoken word, provide radical, entertaining, and subversive art and performances motivated by goals of liberation and revolution to diverse audiences. The Queen bees are Queers and Allies of various identities who inject intellect, sass, humor, and politics into our communities.

A socialist and activist who is knee deep in the fight for women's right, Rochell D. (Ro Deezy) Hart, is a "spit-fire-man-loving-radical-feminist". At 27, Hart has authored four published books and recorded one CD titled "P-I-M-P, Poetic Intellectual Making Progress", produced by O.G. One Productions. Hart's second book "A Black Girl's Song" was nominated for the Oregon Book Award, the highest literary award in the state. In 99, Hart was the first African-American woman to represent the state at the 10th Annual National Poetry Slam. Hart has been featured in the Willamette Week, The Oregonian, The Portland Tribune and on Portland's Jammin 95.5, to name a few. Her fifth book, a collection of non-fictional biographies on 76 African-American women from around the U.S and her second album, "The Prodigal Daughter" will both be released in 2004.

Featuring Kim Dewey (last seen in WONDERBROADS), Jan Rosenthal (of MJCC and Musical Company fame), Mollie Hart (of the renowned Halleluiah Chorus), and Portland's legendary Bad Girl of Comedy, Melinda E. Pittman of WONDERBROADS, Angels the Next Generation and Fallen Angel Choir notoriety - the women of BroadArts Theater's "Fat & Sassy" production have agreed to grace FatGirl Speaks with their hilarious musical stylings. Written and composed by award winning Melinda E. Pittman, and produced by BroadArts Theatre, FAT & SASSY is a festive musical feast for people of all sizes, about women of substance celebrating our whole selves.

The Fat Action Troupe AllStar Spirit Squad was started in Feburary of 2003 at a meeting about the upcoming event FatGirl Speaks. A radical cheerleading group was suggested and everyone was enthusiastic. The cheerleaders practiced in basements, living rooms, driveways and backyards. Pom pons were ordered and T-shirts arrived and F.A.T.A.S.S. performed for the first time on May 3rd, 2003 at The Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon. It is a mighty thing to behold a group of Fat Cheerleaders whopping it up, shouting about injustices and the importance of loving your body. We all highly recommend it.