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asap_abbey 's review for:
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
by Da’Shaun Harrison
"No one can sit comfortably inside of diet culture. It is the prison. It is the closet. It’s fixed and designed, specifically, to be uncomfortable. Its sole purpose is to incarcerate, to make sure that no fat person has the freedom to just be— whether they are dieting or not."
"However, fatness—both as an identity and as the literal tissue—has value. Which means that the celebration of “lost” weight is much more of a celebration of thievery. It is the theft of a fat person’s ability to see themselves as someone who matters, theft of a person’s right to see their body as neutral rather than inherently bad, a breach of consent on how a person enters into a relationship with their fat body. It is a war on the body, particularly and especially for the Black, and it is one that has been introduced and reintroduced since the Transatlantic Slave Trade."
"However, fatness—both as an identity and as the literal tissue—has value. Which means that the celebration of “lost” weight is much more of a celebration of thievery. It is the theft of a fat person’s ability to see themselves as someone who matters, theft of a person’s right to see their body as neutral rather than inherently bad, a breach of consent on how a person enters into a relationship with their fat body. It is a war on the body, particularly and especially for the Black, and it is one that has been introduced and reintroduced since the Transatlantic Slave Trade."