Abstract：
Amid new abortion restrictions in the USA, scientific advances in genetic technologies and investigations of COVID-19 vaccinations in pregnancy, news stories about reproduction abound, often accompanied by images of what journalist Josie Glausiusz has called the \"headless, legless, pregnancy bump\". These images of disembodied pregnant torsos at once improve search engine optimisation for news organisations while perpetuating the view of the \'bump\' as the quintessential visual representation of pregnancy.The images that accompany news articles convey meaning beyond what is included in the text and work to reinforce stereotypes about race, gender and age. In the so-called obesity epidemic, for example, psychotherapist and fat activist Charlotte Cooper documented how images of fat people with their heads cropped out view had become a visual symbol of abjection-\'the headless fatty\'-without a face or agency to speak of. The use of \'headless preggos\' similarly divorces pregnant people from the embodied experience of their pregnancies, reducing them to a single body part.In this article, we chronicle our experiences tracking images of headless preggos via Twitter, arguing that their use works to erase pregnant people\'s autonomy and to construct the fetus as the central concern in reproductive interventions. We begin by tracing the evolution of visual representations of pregnancy including the increasing focus on the fetus and \'bump\'. We then provide a description of our experience with the Twitter account, including our exchanges with academics, journalists and others that highlight how the continued reliance on headless preggos obscures the experiences of pregnant people by focusing all attention on the fetus, as well as how the same images might be thoughtfully deployed. We conclude by offering suggestions for those creating and selecting images that might result in more robust, creative visual representations of pregnancy and reproduction.
摘要：
在美国新的堕胎限制下，遗传技术的科学进步和怀孕期间COVID-19疫苗接种的调查，关于繁殖的新闻报道比比皆是，通常伴随着记者JosieGlausiusz所说的“无头”的图像，无腿,怀孕肿块\“。这些无形的怀孕躯干图像立即改善了新闻机构的搜索引擎优化，同时将“颠簸”视为怀孕的典型视觉表示。伴随新闻文章的图像传达的含义超出了文本中包含的含义，并致力于加强对种族的刻板印象，性别和年龄。在所谓的肥胖症流行中，例如,心理治疗师和肥胖活动家夏洛特·库珀记录了胖子的形象如何被剪掉，他们的头已经变成了一个视觉象征，即“无头的胖子”，没有脸或机构可言。使用“无头孕妇”类似地将孕妇从怀孕的具体经历中分离出来，将它们减少到一个身体部位。在这篇文章中,我们通过Twitter记录我们跟踪无头preggos图像的经历，认为它们的使用可以消除孕妇的自主性，并将胎儿作为生殖干预措施的核心问题。我们首先追踪怀孕的视觉表现的演变，包括对胎儿和“肿块”的日益关注。然后，我们提供我们使用Twitter帐户的体验描述，包括我们与学者的交流，记者和其他人强调了对无头孕妇的持续依赖如何通过将所有注意力集中在胎儿上来掩盖孕妇的经历，以及如何仔细部署相同的图像。最后，我们为那些创建和选择可能导致更健壮的图像提供建议，怀孕和生殖的创造性视觉表现。
