MacAllister appeared posthumously in the art photography book The Full Body Project by photographer and actor Leonard Nimoy (of Star Trek fame). The book is a compilation of photographs including those taken of MacAllister and her troupe for a 2005 New York City art photography show called "Maximum Beauty" which opened at the Bonni Benrubi gallery on 57th street in New York City. The book was released in 2007 and dedicated to Heather MacAllister. Before her death she had requested that mourners made donations to her Fat Fashion Scholarship Fund. MacAllister also contributed a chapter to The Fat Studies Reader entitled 'Embodying Fat Liberation' that was posthumously published in 2009. Other activism In the late 1990s Heather MacAllister was the director of the LGBT resource center at the Eastern University of Michigan. From 2000 to 2002, MacAllister worked as a field organizer for the Triangle Foundation, a gay rights group in Michigan. The organization, now known as Equality Michigan, gives an award in Heather's honor to a community activist each year. MacAllister worked to protect Muslim and Arab-American civil rights after 9-11 and served on the board of Al-Fatiha, America's national organization for sexual minority Muslims. She also served on the board of Transgender Michigan, a group dedicated to protecting transgender individuals from harassment and discrimination.
MacAllister appeared posthumously in the art photography book The Full Body Project by photographer and actor Leonard Nimoy (of Star Trek fame). The book is a compilation of photographs including those taken of MacAllister and her troupe for a 2005 New York City art photography show called "Maximum Beauty" which opened at the Bonni Benrubi gallery on 57th street in New York City. The book was released in 2007 and dedicated to Heather MacAllister. Before her death she had requested that mourners made donations to her Fat Fashion Scholarship Fund. MacAllister also contributed a chapter to The Fat Studies Reader entitled'Embodying Fat Liberation' that was posthumously published in 2009. Other activism
 In the late 1990s Heather MacAllister was the director of the LGBT resource center at the Eastern University of Michigan. From 2000 to 2002, MacAllister worked as a field organizer for the Triangle Foundation, a gay rights group in Michigan. The organization, now known as Equality Michigan, gives an award in Heather's honor to a community activist each year. MacAllister worked to protect Muslim and Arab-American civil rights after 9-11 and served on the board of Al-Fatiha, America's national organization for sexual minority Muslims. She also served on the board of Transgender Michigan, a group dedicated to protecting transgender individuals from harassment and discrimination.

