Why Queering Fat Embodiment

Queer (and) Fat is fat queer? the specious stereotype of the fat lesbian who ‘turns to women’ because she’s ‘too ugly to get a man’ suggests it may be. Conversely, even the most cursory analysis of contemporary Western media culture reveals that only slender bodies are presented as legitimate objects of heterosexual desire. these brief examples begin to make apparent some of the ways in which compulsory heterosexuality and compulsory thinness are mutually constitutive. this conce pt is particularly indebted to rober t m c ruer’ s Crip Theory (2006), which in turn draws on