Pretty Porky and Pissed Off

Pretty Porky & Pissed Off (PPPO) was a Canadian fat activist and performance art collective based in Toronto, Ontario from 1996 to 2005.

[2] Pretty Porky and Pissed Off was founded by Mariko Tamaki, Allyson Mitchell, and Ruby Rowan in 1996, when they gathered friends and allies and staged their first performative political action on Queen Street West in the heart of Toronto's fashion district.

Pretty Porky and Pissed Off's membership grew to include Lisa Ayuso, Gillian Bell, Joanne Huffa, Abi Slone, Tracy Tidgwell and Zoe Whittall.

In 2002 they were visiting lecturers at Laurentian University, in 2003 Abi Slone and Tracy Tidgwell presented a talk called "What's wrong with a little fat?"

[10] PPPO's radical approach to understanding the body was groundbreaking in Canada however they were inspired by many international fat activist including the Fat Underground, Judy Freespirit, Mama Cass, Elana Dykewomon, Judith Stein, the FatGiRL Magazine collective, Max Airborne, Sondra Solovay, Jill Andrew, Aisha Fairclough, Charlotte Cooper, Kay Hyatt, Nao Bustamante, Beth Ditto, Nomy Lamm, and Stacy Bias.

[18] Allyson Mitchell's 2013 immersive installation masterpiece, Kill Joy's Castle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House featured a graveyard of tombstones of feminist organizations past including one for Pretty Porky and Pissed Off marked "Pretty Porky & Pissed Off.