✦ Our Mission
We publish work that challenges, expands and deepens the conversation around fat justice.
OUR NAME
/wah-stm/
Old English for growth, fruitfulness and abundance.
WÆSTM is a creative zine from ReGrowth. It’s a platform for the fat community to share ideas, explore fat issues and appreciate art.
We assume our readers already know that fatphobia is real, systemic and deadly. We’re not here to convince anyone of that. We want to go further.
We publish intersectional essays and reporting, poetry, visual art and hybrid forms. We accept work that centres fat voices, takes ideas seriously and refuses to water down its politics.
WHAT WE PUBLISH
Fat liberation in all forms of expression
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Essays
Critical writing on fat liberation and other topics.
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Reporting
Investigations into systems that harm fat people.
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Poetry
Creative work that centres fat experience.
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Visual art
Photography, illustration, collage and more.
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Hybrid forms
Anything that doesn’t fit into a box.
OUR PRINCIPLES
How we work
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Centring fat voices
Most of our contributors are fat, and our content focuses on what matters to fat liberation.
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Paying contributors
Creative and intellectual labour gets paid. See exactly how.
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Publishing sustainably
We don’t chase virality or a rigid schedule. We work with writers at a pace that lasts.
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Caring about craft
We work with contributors on structure, language and form. Politics and craft are inseparable.
OUR FINANCES
We show you where every pound goes
We believe in showing where the money from WÆSTM comes from and what it will fund going forward. Our Finances page shows what each issue costs, what contributors earn and what happens to the money from every copy.
Submissions open
Write for us.
We want to hear what you are interested in! We are interested in essays, personal narratives, poems, art, other visual work and more from fat creators. Pitch us an idea or send us a draft.