2016, Charlotte Cooper, Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement, unnumbered page:
In workshops extraordinary scenes would unfold, for example the superfat Apple Hard turned a cartwheel, […]
2019, Crystal L. M. Kotow, "Oppressive Liberation: BBW Bashes and the Affective Rollercoaster", in Thickening Fat Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice (eds. Carla Rice, Jen Rinaldi, & Mary Friedman), unnumbered page:
But at bashes, as one of many fat and superfat women in the room, if I want attention—sexual or otherwise—I work harder to get it.
2019, The Other F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce (ed. Angie Manfredi), unnumbered page:
There are voices in this book of superfat runway models and fat poets, artists, entrepreneurs, designers, writers, and scholars.
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, page 173:
Although body sizes in #bodypositive posts were more likely to be thin or small fat, posts also included fat and superfat bodies, whereas #fitspiration depicted predominately thin/fit or hypermuscular bodies.
2020, Layla Cameron, "Bodies on Screen: Merging Fat Activism with Feminist Documentary Filmmaking", Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society, Volume 9, Issue 2 (2020):
Additionally, as a midfat person, I recognize that my experiences are impacted by the privileges extended to myself and others at the smaller end of the size spectrum compared to those who identify as superfat or infinifat.
2020, Jennifer Jolie, "Body Positivity as Public Pedagogy?: The Case of the #effyourbeautystandards Movement on Instagram", thesis submitted to Lakehead University, page 54:
Superfat and infinifat women live in bodies that, even in a somewhat fat-positive environment, do not perform fatness in the “right way” either because they are perceived as too large altogether or their shape does not conform to the hourglass or pear ideal of a large and perky bust, small tummy and waist, and thick thighs and bottom.
2020, Carla Rice, quoted in Andrea LaMarre, Carla Rice, Katie Cook, & May Friedman, "Fat reproductive justice: Navigating the boundaries of reproductive health care", Journal of Social Issues:
I claim this in-between-ness in recognition that I do not face the same stigma and access barriers that those who are superfat or physically impaired confront.
2020, Allison Taylor, "'But where are the dates?': Dating as a central site of fat femme marginalisation in queer communities", Psychology & Sexuality:
Similarly, Liz (cis woman, white, fat to superfat, disabled, 41) discusses “having that person [she was flirting with on a dating website] see a full body photo and dropping the conversation.”
2020, Nicholas Villarreal, "What we don’t talk about when we talk about fat" (book review), Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society:
Gordon critically engages with many different forms of media, popular culture pieces, and her own lived experiences of what it means to navigate our society in a white, cis, superfat body.
2021, Joy Arlene Renee Cox, Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own, page 15:
If you are a midsize (think size 22-24) to superfat (size 26-32), you by all accounts are the type of fat no one wants to be.
2021, Dawn Haney, Max Airbone, & Charis Stiles, "Cultivating new fat liberation movements: growing a movement ecology with Fat Rose", Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society:
The ableist and fatphobic derision tried to make fun of the protesters’ scooters and the body size of two people who self-identify as superfat, using the definition first developed at a NOLOSE conference in the mid-2000s to replace “supersize” (Midnight and Airborne 2020), identifying people who were unable to buy clothes in brick-and-mortar stores and who had functional access needs in relation to their size.
2021, Yessica Garcia Hernandez, "The making of fat erotics: the cultural work and pleasures of gordibuena activists", Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society:
In Latinx studies, culos (butts) have been a popular framework to theorize corporeal excess (Negrón-Muntaner 1997), but recently other Latinas – like Virgie Tovar (2013) and gordibuenas – have begun to create alternative frameworks that focus on stretchmarks, closeups of midfat body parts, and superfat bodies.
2021, Shana McDavis-Conway, quoted in Sarah Doherty, Shana McDavis-Conway, Adrienne Hill, Elaine Lee, Sydney Lewis, Aaminah Shakur, & Cicely Smith, "A conversation about fat activism among activists in community with Nolose", Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society:
This can lead us to focus on the politics of desirability in queer community, which, while important, ignores the life-and-death impact of fat oppression on our most marginalized community members, including superfat folks.
2021, "Contributors", in The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies (eds. Cat Pausé & Sonya Renee Taylor), page xv:
She identifies as a white, hetero, cis-gender, middle-class, disabled superfat woman.
2021, Carla A. Pfeffer, "Fat Activism and Beauty Politics", in The Routledge Companion to Beauty Politics (ed. Maxine Leeds Craig), unnumbered page:
Most of what the public knows about superfat people derives from exploitative media representations on television – such as "My 600-lb Life."
2021, Stefanie Snider, "#NoBodyIsDisposable: Visual politics and performance in collective activist movements", Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society:
Those who photographed the disabled and fat antifascist protesters and called them “tanks” dehumanized them by relying on visual and metaphorical stereotypes about people who use mobility devices and people who are superfat to communicate a message that these people were too fat and too disabled or sick to be of use to a social justice movement […]
2021, Allison Taylor, "'But where are the dates?': Dating as a central site of fat femme marginalisation in queer communities", Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society:
Sookie elaborates on the difficulties superfat femmes, in particular, experience: “because femme often is very much about an esthetic for lots of folks, and . . . being denied access to that [femme] armor is particularly painful because we are restricted in how we can express ourselves by a clothing market that erases us and doesn’t provide for those needs . . . There’s so many garments that are inaccessible.”
2018, "feelingswithbrandy", quoted in Sarah E. Bolden, "Unsettling Boundaries: (Pre-)Digital Fat Activism, Fatphobia, and Enclave Ambivalence", thesis submitted to Syracuse University, page 127:
Superfats take on more drastic risks in their body positive activism, in return for very little benefit for themselves.
2021, Sarah Doherty, quoted in Sarah Doherty, Shana McDavis-Conway, Adrienne Hill, Elaine Lee, Sydney Lewis, Aaminah Shakur, & Cicely Smith, "A conversation about fat activism among activists in community with Nolose", Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society:
Can I write basic access stuff about what it takes to make sure superfatties can enter a space, in enough event notices or posters that other people start to do it too?
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).
2021, Dawn Haney, Max Airbone, & Charis Stiles, "Cultivating new fat liberation movements: growing a movement ecology with Fat Rose", Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society:
Many raised their hands proudly, superfats and scooter riders ready and willing to fight against fascism.
2021, Jon Verriet, "Resisting the idealised ‘healthy lifestyle’: medical mavericks, fat activists, and Couch Potatoes in U.S.and Dutch newspapers (1967-1989)", Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society, Volume 18, Issue 4 (2021):
Perhaps in reference to the rise of fat activism in the U.S., one 1973 article even suggested that it was time for a Dutch ‘club of superfatties’.
2022, Gianluca Russo, The Power of Plus: Inside Fashion’s Size-Inclusivity Revolution, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN:
As images and videos circled social media in the days following the event, some spoke out in anger that so many from within the community—particularly top industry names—publicly supported a brand that left out super- and infinifats (though the attendees did reflect a wide spectrum of bodies).
2022, Bek J. Orr, “Trans/fat: an autoethnographic exploration of becoming at the intersection of trans and fat”, in Fat Studies, →DOI:
To lose 40 pounds is no small feat, especially when one is working to achieve a healthy, neutral relationship to one’s body, but for fat people on the other end of the fat spectrum, “super-fats” and “infinifats,” gender affirming surgery might be out of the question entirely.
