Spurned on by the Maintenance Phase podcast episode about the horror of fat camps, besties Alison Rampa (she/her/hers) and Erica Chiseck (she/her/hers) decided to redesign the experience of a fat camp into an actual fat-positive camp. Trophies for biggest cannonballs, gourmet s’mores, midriff-baring clothing, and telling anti-diet ghost stories around the campfire are all part of the experience of inviting women and women-identifying to take up space and reclaim the camp experience at Camp Roundup.

As a lifelong fat girl, Erica Chiseck is incredibly familiar with taking up space. An abortion activist, Democratic Precinct leader as well as a board member for the Cincinnati Women's March, Erica never considered being fat one of her centers of acti ...