Career and Activism
During a lifetime of art and activism Heather MacAllister was involved in a range of social justice issues, particularly LGBT rights, anti-racism and addressing anti-fat bias. Her tours as a fat burlesque performer challenged both those within and outside the fat acceptance movement on the notion of The Thin Ideal as a pre-requisquite for sexual attractiveness. Six years after her death, friend Stacy Bias recalls MacAllister's approach to activism:
"Heather had an ability to perceive others in a powerful way - such that she could spend an hour chatting with someone and then deliver a simple sentence that had the ability to transform their lives in a small but memorable way. In the case of many, that transforming power was much larger... She had a passion for community and activism that, in some ways, transcended the individual (in ways that the individual sometimes found uncomfortable) in favor of the vision."
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