fat activist

English

Noun

fat activist (plural fat activists)

1. Someone who advocates for fat acceptance ("the body positivity attitude that accepts and appreciates fatness or obesity in humans").
   • 2016 February 7, Sarai Walker, “Yes, I’m Fat. It’s O.K. I Said It.”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-10:

     Most people are startled by my unapologetic use of "fat" to describe not only the heroine of my novel, but my own body. To a majority of people, fat can never be anything but an insult. So I've explained again and again that fat activists use the word proudly in an effort to destigmatize not only the word, but by extension, the fat body.