A short but powerful, eye-opening read. The content is uncomfortable & enraging & absolutely crucial. 

 

Harrison writes about these complicated topics in an elegant yet clear way. This book serves as an introduction to the intersection of anti-fatness and anti-Blackness – the chapters are brief but offer thoughtful outlines for many heavy subjects. 

 

Belly of the Beast helped me confront some of my own internalized fatphobia and gave new insight to some of the trauma I’ve carried since childhood. I look forward to diving deeper into the subject matter and various abolitionist topics discussed here. 

 

CW: racism, fatphobia, ableism, body shaming, police brutality, sexual assault, child abuse, transphobia, diet culture, medical trauma, eugenics/scientific racism