What if dating apps were built for real bodies, real needs, and real safety?
In this Season 5 premiere of Big Sexy Chat, we sit down with Liz Gewirtz, founder of Hips, Crips & Queers, a new dating and community platform centering queer, fat, disabled, and older folks.
Liz shares what pushed her to build something entirely different from swipe-and-discard culture, and what it looks like to design a space rooted in fat liberation, disability justice, consent, and actual human connection.
We talk about why mainstream dating apps fail marginalized bodies, how language and desire get reclaimed, what real safety and scam prevention can look like, how to avoid fetishization, and why representation and visibility still matter deeply. We also dig into dating while fat, disabled, queer, older, neurodivergent, or all of the above, and what it means to dare to date in a world that often tells you not to.
This conversation is honest, thoughtful, funny, political, tender, and deeply human.
If you’ve ever felt invisible in dating spaces, this one is for you.
About Our Guest
Liz Gewirtz is the founder of Hips, Crips & Queers, a dating and community platform centering queer, fat, disabled, and older folks.
By day, she works as a Restorative Justice Facilitator. By night, she is a fat, disabled, old, and queer activist, community builder, big-time nerd, and devoted dog rescuer.
Learn more and sign up for updates:
https://hipscripsqueers.com
Follow Hips, Crips & Queers on social media for launch updates, events, and community spaces.
Support the Show
BigSexyChat.com appreciates you and our community. We do this for you. If you have ideas for future topics, email us at bigsexychatpod@gmail.com
Find us on:
Facebook & Instagram: BigSexyChat
Twitter/X: BigSexyChatPod
Merch: www.BigSexyTees.com
(thanks to Toni Tails for setting this up!)
Chrystal also sells sex toys at BlissConnection.com
Use code BSC20 for 20% off.
