Portland, OR My name is Beethoven Thornton and I am a body-positive gender-affirming stylist, consultant, entrepreneur, and social media manager. I own a plus-size clothing store in Portland, OR. I specialize in plus-size body love coaching and I am all about freedom of expression of self and learning to love who you are as you are. I am fat, a non-binary queer trans femme, and I am neurodivergent. I grew up in a house with a drug-addicted mother and an alcoholic father with rage disorder and multiple personalities. I have seen and overcome the trauma of my childhood and would love to help a child who has had a hard life as I did. I put myself through college and now I own my own company and am very well respected in my field. Qualifications: I am a non-binary trans queer femme and I have experience mentoring and educating queer and trans youth and adults in a variety of different subjects. In college, I was part of an organization that was a trauma-informed educational group that taught groups and individuals about sexual health, women’s empowerment, racial inequality, queer and trans issues, and queer empowerment. I created a program that was adopted by universities around Washington state that educated people about sexual and partner violence in queer communities focusing on the barriers that queer people face when trying to get help and pathways out of those situations. I am incredibly passionate about self-love and radical body acceptance and I presently coach folks on their journey of self-exploration, self-expression, and self-love. Primarily, I style plus size and trans people of all backgrounds and places in their self-love journey. I run a successful plus-size clothing company called Fat Fancy in Portland, OR. We are internationally known as a pioneer in the social justice-based radical, sustainable, fat acceptance community as a hub of fat fashion, accessories, art, and goods by fat people for fat people. We believe that building community is paramount to our collective success and liberation. My area of consultation ranges from social media management, plus size fashion and style, business operations, e-commerce, commercial retail merchandising, event organization, branding, personal/professional writing, and lifestyle coaching. I have a wide array of interests. In college, at Western Washington University, I studied art, religion, business, and English. Outside of my studies, I interned at the Bellingham Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services Center helping clients through trauma-informed care. While there, I organized volunteers and led group volunteer community outreach projects. I also was an executive assistant organizing fundraisers and community donations. I am all about community building and taking care of each other through direct action at an individual level. I believe my mission on this earth is to guide people of all backgrounds to a place of radical self-acceptance; a place where white supremacy, capitalism, and the patriarchy are deconstructed to understand what role they have in unrealistic, racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, ableist, and rigid societal roles, norms, and expectations that deny us of our divine wholeness and right to exist and express ourselves freely without fear. I help people become fearless.