ABSTRACT
Drawing upon Critical Disability Studies, Fat Studies, Affect Studies and Deleuze Studies, broadly speaking this chapter seeks to critique the human grid of the personal registry. To affirm expressions of life that derive from fatness and impairment, this chapter argues there needs to be a shift in registry from the personal to the impersonal. The merging of Critical Disability Studies and Fat Studies, along with the use of a duoethnographic methodology, enables us to consider the embodiment and experience of fatness and impairment as equated to a negative and hopeless state of being under the personal register. However, with the notion of impairment in the nexus of fatness and disability, we are working towards affirming fatness and disability through itself under the impersonal register, instead of it being contingent upon a prescriptive notion of proper being.
