Abstract This article examines Tess Holliday’s queer rhetorical approach to body-positive activism to understand how she disrupts binaries that essentialize the fat body as unhealthy. I closely examine images and captions from Holliday’s Instagram page to argue that, by visually and textually resignifying the fat body as active, Holliday’s posts performatively disrupt the binary logic that defines health against fatness and reimagine the fat body as a particular healthy body. I consider the alternative queer world rhetorically crafted through Holliday’s performance of fatness—one in which fat bodies become intelligible as healthy—while also considering what kinds of fat bodies such a world leaves out. This article makes a case for using queer rhetorical criticism to analyze rhetorics emerging from bodies not traditionally thought of as queer, particularly fat bodies, and demonstrates the possibilities and limitations of body-positive/fat-acceptance activism to alter normative worldviews.

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Tess Holliday 对身体积极行动主义的怪癖：破坏健康的恐惧症逻辑并使脂肪适应

摘要 本文考察了 Tess Holliday 对身体积极行动主义的奇怪修辞方法，以了解她如何破坏将肥胖身体本质化为不健康的二元论。我仔细检查了 Holliday 的 Instagram 页面上的图像和标题，认为通过在视觉和文本上将肥胖体重新表示为活跃，Holliday 的帖子在表演上破坏了定义健康与肥胖的二元逻辑，并将肥胖体重新想象为特定的健康身体。我认为另类酷儿世界是通过霍利迪对肥胖的表现而精心打造的——在这种世界中，肥胖的身体变得可以理解为健康——同时也考虑了这样一个世界会遗漏哪些类型的肥胖身体。这篇文章提出了使用酷儿修辞批评来分析从传统上不被认为是酷儿的身体中出现的修辞的案例，