Why Do Fat Singers Fight So Hard For An Industry That Hates Us?
By Tracy Cox Sometimes, as a fat singer in the opera industry, I don’t know why I bother at all. Except that I love to sing. And that I view the erasure of fat talent at the opera as both an artistic loss and a moral wrong. As a fat performer, artist, and activist, I have centered my work on body justice in the performing arts. And I want to make one thing clear: fat-shaming in the opera industry is not an issue of one bad actor. It is an industry-wide problem. We know, even