deathfat
nounEtymology From death + fat. Coined by Lesley Kinzel as a "counter-euphemism" for morbidly obese in a November 2008 post on the Fatshionista LiveJournal community.
- Some US fat activists distinguish between ‘inbetweenies,’ who are relatively ‘small’ fat people who enjoy privileges such as ‘passing’ as thin or ‘on their way to being’ thin, and ‘death fats,’ who suffer the worst of the sanctions society places on fat people (McMichael, 2010).2013, Maya Maor, "More: Fat Women in Israel-Genres and Issues in Identity Construction and Resistance to Social Oppression", thesis submitted to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, page 104
- The protagonist is aligned to the abject in this room as she wears her dress of rot but she is also aligned to the "death fats" and she exists at a great distance from the slender angels above.2016, Laura Ellen Joyce, “Flesh Home: The Uncanny Female Architecture of Blake Butler's EVER”, in Helen Hester, Caroline Walters, editors, Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism, unnumbered page:
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- "Even within the international fatosphere and rad places of the internet, a lot of the fat femme people have perfectly chiseled faces. Even the deathfats," Rodríguez later tells me in an interview.2017 June 12, Marie Southard Ospina, “A Body Project: Cynthia Rodriguez On Their Chin(s)”, in Bustle: