To Be Fat, Black, and Ugly In America with Da'Shaun Harrison (June 2023)

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In many ways, the health and wellness industry is killing Black people. For our audacity to exist with melanated skin, we’ve historically endured subjugation, political and economic disenfranchisement, and centuries-long death. And it hasn’t stopped yet. In June 2023, Jay talked about it with Da’Shaun L. Harrison for season 7 of BHY. Da’Shaun is a self-described Black, fat, trans, disabled, queer abolitionist, community organizer, writer, and editor at Scalawag magazine. Their award-winning book, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, explores desirability politics, gender, policing, and the fallacies of healthiness. __________________________ Black History Year (BHY) is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company. PushBlack exists to amplify the stories of Black history you didn't learn in school and explore pathways to liberation with people leading the way. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at BlackHistoryYear.com — most people donate $10 a month, but every dollar makes a difference. If this episode moved you, share it with your people! Thanks for supporting the work. Hosting BHY is Jay (2020-2023) and Darren Wallace (2024). The BHY production team includes Jareyah Bradley and Brooke Brown. Our producers are Cydney Smith and Len Webb for PushBlack, and Lance John with Gifted Sounds edits and engineers the show. BHY’s executive producers are Julian Walker and Lilly Workneh. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, we ask the question, what does it mean to be fat and black in America?
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0:42.3	In many ways, the health and wellness industry is killing black people. And for our audacity to
0:48.2	exist with melanated skin, we've historically endured subjugation, political, and economic disenfranchisement,
0:56.3	and centuries-long death, and it ain't stopped yet.
0:59.6	But what does it really mean to be fat and black in America?
1:04.7	Well, in July of 2023, Jay sat down with the author Deshawn L. Harrison
1:11.8	to pose just that question
1:14.2	and get into something a lot deeper
1:16.8	and a lot more thoughtful.
1:19.1	Check it out on this edition of
1:20.6	The Best of Black History Year.
1:26.8	Music There's a hefty debt to pay for living in a black body.
1:40.3	For our audacity to exist with melanated skin, we've endured subjugation, political and
1:49.1	economic disenfranchisement, and centuries-long death. Even so, those oppressive systems
1:57.1	consume our blackness to the bone, spit us out, and mark us as invaluable, ugly, and
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