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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.

Content

Total articles 129

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  Anti-fatness as anti-blackness: Violence at home, violence abroad

  By Da’Shaun Harrison Verified, Carolyn Copeland Verified

  Nov. 25, 2024

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  Fat Liberation Goes From Online to IRL in "Your Fat Friend"

  By Sonya Taylor, Da’Shaun Harrison Verified, Dani Janae

  Jun. 13, 2023

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  Fat Liberation Goes From Online to IRL in "Your Fat Friend"

  By Sonya Taylor, Da’Shaun Harrison Verified, Dani Janae

  Jun. 13, 2023

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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.