Lizzo's Black, Female, and Fat Resistance

By Gheni N. Platenburg and Niya Pickett Miller

Celebrated musician and entertainer Lizzo wowed audiences and left many "feeling good as hell." Notwithstanding her collective--fat, Black female-- identity she catapulted into mainstream success while redefining the social script for body size, race, and gender. This book explores a tale of two narratives: Lizzo's self-curated, fat-positive identity and the media's reaction to an unabashedly proud fat, Black woman. This critical analysis examines how Lizzo challenges fatphobia and reconstitutes fat stigmatization into self-empowerment through her strategic use of hyper-embodiment via social media, and the rhetorical distinctions between Lizzo's self-curated narrative via social media and those offered about her in print media. In part, Lizzo's bodily flaunting is argued as a significant rhetorical act that emancipates her identity of fatness and reframes the negative tropes of (fat) Black women typically curated in American culture.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030737616
• ISBN13: 9783030737610
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"