A Full-Fat Remix of Low-Fat Love Stories

Authors

Tabitha Chilton
Gioia ChiltonFollow

Abstract

Low-Fat Love Stories is a book coauthored by Patricia Leavy and Victoria Scotti. The book is a collection of short stories and visual arts based directly on women’s interview transcripts. In this article, the authors respond to Low-Fat Love Stories through text and visual art. The authors show how artistic analysis inspires personal reflection.

Keywords

arts-based research, fiction as research, social fiction, women’s lives, women’s relationships, interview research, interview analysis, visual art, portraiture, self-concept

Author Bio(s)

Gioia Chilton, Ph.D., ATR-BC, CSAC is an art therapist, artist, and scholar. Her writing has appeared in The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research, Handbook of Arts-based Research, the Journal of Applied Arts and Health, and the Journal of Military, Veteran, and Family Health. With Rebecca A. Wilkinson, she co-authored Positive Art Therapy Theory and Practice: Integrating Positive Psychology with Art Therapy. Their textbook was recently translated and published in China by Chongqing University Press. Her book is available on Amazon: https://a.co/d/5yGfQsK

Tabitha Chilton is a writer and editor based in Virginia, specializing in creative nonfiction. Her work has been published in literary journals including The Foundationalist, West Branch, and Rainy Day.

Publication Date

3-3-2025

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2025.7945

Recommended APA Citation

Chilton, T., & Chilton, G. (2025). A full-fat remix of low-fat love stories. The Qualitative Report, 30(2), 3166-3180. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2025.7945