Slimming Smartly

• Diet culture
• Companionship
• Feminism

RPG system: LARP
Participants: 5-6 players

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Description

In the Slimming Smartly group, meetings are places of support, encouragement, and accountability. You will play a woman attending a series of meetings over the course of a year, and follow her personal journey.

Slimming Smartly is a feminist examination of weight-loss organizations, looking critically at their operation and effects. This is an inclusive larp. The characters are all female, but all genders are welcome. It is also open to participants of all body types. We will workshop playing a character who has a different body to your own: we aim for this to be a respectful space for people who consider themselves fat, and for those who don’t.

We won’t use weighing equipment, or refer to weight using numbers or metrics: we have a metatechnique for representing weight gains and losses.
We have experience in our own lives of body and eating issues, and of slimming groups, which has informed the design of this larp.

Unavoidable content: fatphobia, discussions of weight loss, experience of sexism
Content for some characters which may be discussed during the larp: disordered eating, postpartum depression, sexual violence, mental health issues, relationship breakdown, illness

About the authors
We are UK larp designers and organizers, responsible for long-form larps such as A Place of Greater Safety, The Clinic, and On Location, as well as a number of chamber larps – individually, with other people, and now together with Slimming Smartly. Our website is at https://larpsonlocation.wordpress.com/

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