The Fat Doctor Podcast Challenging the fifth law: Do we society a debt of health?
In order to challenge the fifth law of healthism, Dr. Asher Larmie is joined by Da'Shaun Harrison, a Black, fat, queer and trans theorist and abolitionist in Atlanta, GA. Harrison is the author of Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, and is a public speaker who often gives talks and leads workshops on Blackness, queerness, gender, fatness, disabilities, and their intersections. Harrison currently serves as the Editor-at-Large for Scalawag Magazine.
In this episode, Asher and Da'Shaun discuss:
- How health is violence
- How the medical profession is founded on the subjugation of black people
- How slavery impacts the doctor-patient relationship in 21st century America
- Where we go from here
References:
Da'Shaun's book is Belly of the beast: The politics of anti-fatness as anti-blackness can be purchased now, and the audiobook is now available.
Da'Shaun can be found on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook
Their website is Dashaunharrison.com
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More about Da'Shaun Harrison
Writing, for Da’Shaun, is not solely a passion or talent, but it is the foundation on which their home—their love, their survival, their creativity—is built. It is their expression of self; their contribution to the documentation of the histories of oppressed/colonized peoples. Harrison’s writing has appeared in Philadelphia
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