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Da’Shaun Harrison
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Editor-at-Large, Scalawag
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Biography
Da’Shaun Harrison is a trans theorist and Southern-born and bred abolitionist in Atlanta, GA. They are the author of Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, which won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction and several other media/literary honors. As an editor, movement media and narrative strategist, and storyteller, Harrison uses their extensive history as a community organizer—which began in 2014 during their first year at Morehouse College—to frame their political thought and cultural criticism. Through the lens of what Harrison calls “Black Fat Studies,” they lecture on blackness, fatness, gender, and their intersections. Harrison currently serves as Editor-at-Large at Scalawag Magazine, is a co-host of the podcast “Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back,” and ⅓ of the video podcast “In The Middle.” Between the years 2019 and 2021, Harrison served as Associate Editor—and later as Managing Editor—of Wear Your Voice Magazine. read my full bio at dashaunharrison.com.
Local Education , Politics , General News , Features , Profiles
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Content
By Da’Shaun Harrison Verified, Carolyn Copeland Verified| Prism Verified For all of my life, I have been fat. Even at my smallest, I was larger than everyone else around me. A lot of kids loved me—and I was a very argumentative child who learned at an early age how to advocate for myself, so I never necessarily allowed anyone who didn’t love me to bully me—but I was picked on often for being fat. And for eating. Eating is an essential part of life. If we do not eat, our bodies do not get the necessary nutrients they need, and our organs fail us.
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By Sonya Taylor, Da’Shaun Harrison Verified, Dani Janae| Substack@ This piece is part of the Tribeca 2023 coverage here on “I Care About…” // Read more here <3I watched Your Fat Friend — a film by Jeanie Finlay about author Aubrey Gordon — over the course of a few days. It’s not hard to watch, in fact, with the exception of a few moments, it’s a charming film. I was excited to watch this film because I am fat, the fattest I’ve ever been. I also have written quite a bit about being fat on the internet. It’s a lawless country, it’s the wild fuckin west.
Company Info
Scalawag
Scalawag is a journalism and storytelling organization that illuminates dissent, unsettles dominant narratives, pursues justice and liberation, and stands in solidarity with marginalized people and communities in the South. Online, in person, and through our family of engaged members, Scalawag reimagines the roots and futures of the place we call home. The stories we tell matter and move conversations forward. Our programs create rich connections among Southerners and throughout the South: between writers and readers, changemakers and communities; from urban to rural, from local to state. Together, we lay the groundwork for social change.
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Founded: 2014