This article discusses the interrelationships between fatphobia, (re)existence, and fat activism, concerning the experiences of fat women during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors draw on their experiences as fat women, from an autoethnographic perspective, in dialogue with the theoretical-critical contributions that highlight the field of fat body studies, the decolonial movement, fat activism, and decolonial feminism in dialogue with fat feminism. The authors discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted fatphobia in Brazil, while also exacerbating it, as well as the ways in which fat women's activism has been carried out in this process of confronting prejudice.
