Citations:small fat

Noun: "(informal) a slightly to moderately overweight person, generally reckoned as a 16-18 in US women's sizes"

 * 2017, Victoria Welsby, "Fat Is Fabulous", fabUplus Magazine, Fall 2017, page 23:
 * Interestingly, in a recent study size 16 – 18 was the most common dress size for American women, proving that small fats are totally “average”.
 * 2018, "feelingswithbrandy", quoted in Sarah E. Bolden, "Unsettling Boundaries: (Pre-)Digital Fat Activism, Fatphobia, and Enclave Ambivalence", thesis submitted to Syracuse University, page 127:
 * As a super fat when I’ve pointed this out, by like, saying a size 16 model in an ad is no cause for my personal celebration, or that a new clothing line up to a 3X does nothing for me, etc, I’ve been shouted down for not being excited for the things small fats are now getting. I’m tired.
 * 2018, Shirley, quoted in Joy Arlene Renee Cox, "Negotiating Identity and Taking Political Action in the Fat Liberation Movement", dissertation submitted to The State University of New Jersey, page 89:
 * But just like we're all of the sudden, you're choosing between Trans kids and fat kids, and I'm like, "Can't we... it's all oppression man, it's all shitty, it's all screwing up the kids." I don't know, just like with the small fats and the [super] fatties arguing, I'm like, "Don't you see? We're all getting fucked?"
 * 2019, anonymous, quoted in Judith C. Bridges, "[X]splaininggender, race, class, and body: Metapragmatic disputes of linguistic authority and ideologies on Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr", thesis submitted to the University of South Florida, page 205:
 * I mean tbh [TO BE HONEST] I find it frustrating when smallfats center themselves over fats who experience inarguably worse treatment
 * 2019, Cat Pausé, "Hung Up: Queering Fat Therapy", Women & Therapy, Volume 42, Issue 1-2 (2019):
 * These podcasts provide a mix of scholarly material, activist engagement, and autobiographical reflection; they also represent a range of small fats (those on the smaller side of fatness; often designated by their ability to find clothes in “regular” size clothing ranges), (those on the larger side of fatness; often designated by their inability to find clothes in plus-size clothing ranges),
 * 2019, Rayanne Connie Streeter, "Are All Bodies Good Bodies?: Redefining Femininity Through Discourses of Health, Beauty, and Gender in Body Positivity", dissertation submitted to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, pages 129-130:
 * By highlighting small fats, some body positive influencers and users get to attain some of the benefits awarded to those deemed beautiful, such as increased income and an association with happiness, talent, and competency, but not all (Conley and Glauber 2005, Farrell 2011).
 * 2020, Hannah R. Long, "'Fat is a Queer Issue, Too': Complicating Queerness and Body Size in Women's Sexual Orientation and Identity", dissertation submitted to the University of New Mexico, page 114-115:
 * While both of them likely experience fatphobia from people and structures, the amount of access that someone who is on the bigger side of the fat spectrum might get could be significantly reduced, especially compared to someone who is a small fat, or wearing a size 1-2x.
 * 2021, Judith Bridges, "Explaining '-splain' in digital discourse", Language Under Discussion, Volume 6, Issue 1 (2021), page 21:
 * For instance, experiences of being ‘very fat’ carrying more value in fat-acceptance discourses than the experiences of so-called ‘small fats.’
 * 2021, Diandra Oliver & Layla Cameron, "'We’re number fat!': reflections on fat fastpitch with the heavy hitters", Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society:
 * For example, some players who identified as “small fats” reported concerns that they are not “fat enough,”
 * 2021, "Defining Fat", in The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies (eds. Cat Pausé & Sonya Renee Taylor), unnumbered page:
 * Many activists make distinctions between small fats (those who wear around a 16–18 in US clothes sizes), fats (those who wear between 20–28), super fats (those who wear over size 30 and are often sized out of clothing markets), and infinity/death fats (those who were over a size 36 and are often unable to find mass produced clothing) (Nischuk, 2012).