Been reading the book Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness, by Da'Shaun L. Harrison. It doesn't quite feel accurate to say I'm having "fun" reading it, because the subject matter is so serious and emotionally loaded, but it's VERY good. I'm about to start the chapter about gender and I'm really looking forward to it. Really glad I found it at the library.
Highly recommend it for anyone interested in learning more about the intersection of fat liberation and Black liberation. Thus far, I particularly like the author's criticisms of the body positivity movement, as well as their explanation about the shift of European beauty standards from viewing fatness as desirable to thinness as desirable. There was a lot of history and anti-Black context about it that I'd never learned about before. I also like what they have to say on the American War on Drugs and the concept of health as an axis of oppression.
I've given this book a try before. It has some... questionable uses of citations.
