fatspo

English[edit]

From fat +‎ -spo, after thinspo.

fatspo (uncountable)

(informal) Material created by and/or intended for fat people that promotes body positivity.
Antonym: thinspo
- 2014, Cat Pausé, “Causing a Commotion: Queering Fat in Cyberspace”, in Cat Pausé, Samantha Murray, Jackie Wykes, editors, Queering Fat Embodiment, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 82:
  To this end, some fat activists began promoting the use of a fatspo tag. By tagging representations of positive fatness as fatspo, they disrupt the discourse of what bodies are aspirational. They attempt to reclaim the narrative back from those who engage in fat shame.
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(informal) Material created and/or used to inspire weight loss by presenting fat people in a disparaging manner (associated with online communities encouraging eating disorders).
Hypernym: thinspo
- 2021 May 18, Lauren Strapagiel, “People Have Been Flipping “What I Eat In A Day” TikToks To Be Anti-Diet And I Was Immediately Hooked”, in BuzzFeed News‎^[1]:
  I searched "what I eat in a day" on Twitter to see how the conversation had translated to that platform, and the results were horrifying. The most popular results were from "pro–eating disorder" accounts who reposted the TikToks as "fatspo," sometimes even estimating the calories consumed in plus-size creators’ videos so they could revel in their disgust.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fatspo.