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Members only book club meeting - belly of the Beast: the politics of anti-fatness as anti-blackness
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness As Anti-Blackness, the 2022 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Nonfiction, is a foundational text for the work that ASDAH does and is essential reading for any provider who claims or wants to be Health at Every Size®-aligned. In the book Harrison discusses the limitations of self-love and body positivity, the incongruity of “health” and “healthiness”, hyper-policing & carcerality, and the discrimination, abuse, condescension, and trauma that the Black fat faces within the medical industrial complex and under other other systems of oppression.
In the forward of the text, Kiese Laymon writes, “Many will wonder about the rhetorical dexterity necessary to pull off such generative, and really luscious, theorizing. Folks will write about how Harrison welcomes us into the mushy procreant spaces beyond self-love, beyond health, beyond desirability, beyond human, beyond gender, and beyond abolition. Readers will talk about how Harrison names what is on the other side of, and within, all of these designations, as they invite us into the glorious stank of radical revision…most will remember the book’s tenderness, its pleasurable rigor and its fat Black plea to demolish normal as we know it…I am a fat Black and I’d like to help Da’Shaun Harrison destroy our worlds. I know you will too.
During this members-only book club meeting with a special guest appearance by Harrison, we will process and unpack all that we have read while also visioning what’s next for how we nurture and care for each other, particularly the Black fat and those who are deeply impacted by medical anti-fatness. There will be time for members to connect and to be in discussion with Harrison. You don’t want to miss this!
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