ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes that a queering of both disability and fatness provides a stronger critique of neoliberal healthism. It allows for fat and disability activists and scholars to make strategic alliances while simultaneously preserving the unique needs and focuses of each individual movement. Haraway argues, is not only to trouble the normative and ideological categories for the easy frisson of transgression but rather for the hope of livable worlds. Cooper notes that she disagreed with the assimilationist stance that Dietbreakers and other early 1990s fat activists groups took by seeking mainstream acceptance of fat bodies and yet conceding that the very large would still benefit from weight loss. What is of interest in Cooper's post for my purposes here is her mention of what remains a sticking point for size diversity activism today, the contentious relationship between fatness, health, and disability. Cooper illustrates the utility of the social model for fat activism and studies.
