Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

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

5 reviews

bedroompunk's review

challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Fatphobia

Moderate: Eating disorder

monstrouscosmos's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

definitely a hard listen, but I'm glad to have done it. while there is some historical rooting I appreciate that it mostly stayed in the realm of contemporary experience (the author's own and those of others). I think it's a necessary read for anyone interested in embodied experiences broadly (but esp along intersections of race, gender, and age). 

I did read the content warnings on Storygraph, but I really would have benefitted from content notes with chapters at the beginning of the book or at the beginning of chapters. I still would have listened, but I'd have been better prepared to do so. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Fatphobia, Pedophilia, Death, Eating disorder, Ableism, Body shaming, Murder, Racial slurs, Child abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Police brutality, and Racism

Moderate: Transphobia, Colonisation, Classism, and Dysphoria

breadbummer's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Take care with this one; this should be required reading for everyone, but it's incredibly hard-hitting. I'm sure this topic can be, by absolutely ANY means, completely covered in this short read/listen, but Harrison provides a hell of a lot of information on the topic. Their dedication to the topic is also very noticeable in how they write which, as someone who has had to read some of the driest academic texts imaginable, I appreciate tremendously.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Police brutality, Racism, Dysphoria, Murder, Fatphobia, and Hate crime

Moderate: Child abuse, Colonisation, Pedophilia, Slavery, and Transphobia

Minor: Confinement, Eating disorder, and Medical trauma

azariamckay's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

This book was such an amazing read! The writing is accessible and Da’Shaun Harrison blew me away with their expanses on anti-fatness, anti-blackness, gender, and the patriarchy. I loved this book so much and would absolutely encourage any and everyone to read it. This should be required reading in academic spaces!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Drug abuse, and Eating disorder

The trigger warnings I added for the book are just to let folks know Da’Shaun briefly touches on these topics in order to gain further context for their main argument in the book. These content warnings are not to say the topics are explicitly detailed in the book, just that there is mention for furthering the main points of the book.

thefatpaperback's review

informative fast-paced

5.0

This is a necessary read for anyone wanting to learn about anti-fatness, anti-Blackness, body liberation, body sovereignty, and the like. Take your body politics to the next level with this short but powerful read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Ableism, Death, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, and Transphobia