Da’Shaun Harrison–a fat, Black, disabled, and nonbinary trans writer–offers an incisive, fresh, and precise exploration of anti-fatness as anti-Blackness, foregrounding the state-sanctioned murders of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people in historical analysis. Policing, disenfranchisement, and invisibilizing of fat Black men and trans and nonbinary masculine people are pervasive, insidious ways that anti-fat anti-Blackness shows up in everyday life. Fat people can be legally fired in 49 states for being fat; they’re more likely to be houseless. Fat people die at higher rates from misdiagnosis or nontreatment; fat women are more likely to be sexually assaulted. And at the intersections of fatness, Blackness, disability, and gender, these abuses are exacerbated.
In this podcast episode review, Yeli & Julie talk about:
- The Beyond – “a place in which we live without qualifiers, conditions, or labels meant to harm our being”
- Dismantling systems of oppression! and who rebuilds afterwards?
- What does this book add to the HAES/intuitive eating conversation? Spoiler: “health” is more complicated (and more sinister) than you may think it is.
- The harmful side of body positivity
- The ways that anti-fatness interacts with police brutality
- EVERYONE should read this book!
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