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Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun Harrison
7 reviews
monstrouscosmos's review against another edition
4.75
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.
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
5.0
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
remimicha's review
5.0
Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Body shaming, Medical content, Police brutality, Sexism, Genocide, Colonisation, Fatphobia, Racism, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Medical trauma, Death, and Classism
zombiezami's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Racism, Fatphobia, and Police brutality
Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Sexual content, Misogyny, Racial slurs, and Pedophilia
Minor: Blood, Suicide, and Colonisation
Eugenicswetdirtreads's review
5.0
Immaculately woven through this investigation is an analysis of how anti-fatness as anti-Blackness manifests across diverse experiences of gender, transness, and disability. The result is a refreshing, much-needed & well overdue fill for so many gaps in existing fat literature.
I really can't overstate how impressive it is for a 109-page book to cover so much ground without sacrificing any complexity or integrity. I’ll admit, when I first started the book, I felt a bit unsure about the in-depth explanation of sociological concepts & key terms. I wondered whether it was useful, or just academic waffle. I quickly found, though, that it was not only useful, but imperative to the book’s accessibility, nuance, & simultaneous huge scope & brevity.
There is no one I wouldn’t recommend this book to. However, I think it’s a particularly important read for white fat folks whose fat activism lacks a racially aware & critical lens. And I don’t just mean awareness of how fatphobia impacts Black folks differently. I mean how fatphobia is a direct product of anti-Blackness that largely impacts people based on their perceived proximity to Blackness, and thus, perceived distance from humanness.
I am so grateful for this book. It is a generous offering that provides an opportunity for fat studies and fat literature to steer in a crucial direction. Belly of the Beast, along with other critical fat Black texts, also provides fertile ground for other localised contexts and experiences to be thoroughly and appropriately engaged. I would love to see the wisdom of this book applied to other Black contexts beyond Turtle Island (or the so-called united states/north america).
(Review initially posted on Instagram)
Graphic: Police brutality, Racism, Death, Fatphobia, and Gun violence
Moderate: Genocide, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Ableism, Murder, Slavery, and Transphobia
Minor: Colonisation, Dysphoria, and Religious bigotry
bearystarry's review
5.0
Graphic: Fatphobia, Murder, Police brutality, and Racism
Moderate: Classism and Colonisation
becksusername's review
3.5
Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Colonisation, Homophobia, Misogyny, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Racism, and Police brutality