Embracing a 'Big, Black Ass' at a 'Tiny, Tiny Ass Desk': Lizzo's Affective Performance of Choric Self-Love

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Embracing a 'Big, Black Ass' at a 'Tiny, Tiny Ass Desk': Lizzo's Affective Performance of Choric Self-Love

Mason, Myles W

Women's studies quarterly, 04/2022, Volume: 50, Issue: 1

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This essay analyzes Lizzo's 2019 Tiny Desk Concert as an affective performance of call-and-response that provides insight into pleasurable transgressions of hegemonic boundaries to performatively spread love. Lizzo invites a transgression of these norms, eliciting a response from her physical and digital audiences to embrace the fat, Black, feminine abject as a means of self-love. Turning to the Black communicative technique of calland- response, the essay illustrates the contours of the choric self-love Lizzo establishes with her audiences that transformatively reimagines a self-love that centers Black women's joy.

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