With strangely adorable drawings, Rachele Cateyes reclaims words intended to hurt.
This is artist, author, and activist Rachele Cateyes.
Cateyes lives in Portland, Oregon, and is responsible for the now-defunct Nearsighted Owl blog, the book How to be a Fat Bitch, and the Fat Pals writing project, among other endeavors.
As a visual artist, she creates deceptively sweet-looking drawings around the theme of body positivity — centered largely on, but not limited to, fat bodies and reactions to them.
Her pieces show how impactful words can be, coming both from places of hatred and empowerment.
"I'm really tired of having to justify who I am and sit around while I am Photoshopped, turned in gross memes, and [made] the target of hate," Cateyes, whose image was stolen last year for a diet company's "before" photo, tells BuzzFeed Life.
!["I'm really tired of having to justify who I am and sit around while I am Photoshopped, turned in gross memes, and [made] the target of hate," Cateyes, whose image was stolen last year for a diet company's "before" photo, tells BuzzFeed Life.](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_t0YSaOABEkWld_MQzfvCiNTMB1zXldtz3aqdqNTif5Dn3caXicv4lm0p05_ENx86SqJxnrx4Bdjw=s0-d)
"My way of dealing with the harassment is to turn it into something positive," she says. "A cute and colorful drawing, or something that can be slapped on a tote bag and worn proudly!"
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