Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

Exploring anti-fatness and anti-Blackness at the intersections of race, police violence, gender identity, fatness, and health.

To live in a body both fat and Black is to intersect at the margins of a s…

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