A review by laurenleigh
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun Harrison

informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

I learned of this through Aubrey Gordon, and it’s a wonderful addition to the growing library of texts on body liberation and anti-fat bias. This focuses on anti-fatness particularly towards the Black masc body. It was pretty dense despite being a short book, and there were moments I wanted to spend longer on a topic. One of my biggest takeaways was how anti-fatness played a role in many high-profile murders of Black men by police officers, which is an angle I never quite considered. Very powerful, and I’m still processing a lot of this text.