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Da’Shaun Harrison

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ungendered || award-winning author: Belly of the Beast || rep’d: @odommediamgmt || co-ed @scalawagmag

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Da’Shaun Harrison’s Biography

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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 fr…

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Belly of the Beast by Da'Shaun L. Harrison: 9781623175979 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Belly of the Beast by Da'Shaun L. Harrison: 9781623175979 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The 2022 Lammy Award Winner in Transgender Nonfiction** Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fat…

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

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By Sonya Taylor, Da’Shaun Harrison Verified, Dani Janae
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This piece is part of the Tribeca 2023 coverage here on “I Care About…” // Read more here <3 I watched Your Fat Friend — a film by Jeanie Finlay about author Aubrey Gordon — over the course of a few days. It’s not hard to watch, in fact, with the exception of a few moments, it’s a charming film. I was excited to watch this film because I am fat, the fattest I’ve ever been. I also have written quite a bit about being fat on the internet. It’s a lawless country, it’s the wild fuckin west.
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Fat Liberation Goes From Online to IRL in "Your Fat Friend"

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By Sonya Taylor, Da’Shaun Harrison Verified, Dani Janae
This piece is part of the Tribeca 2023 coverage here on “I Care About…” // I watched Your Fat Friend — a film by Jeanie Finlay about author Aubrey Gordon — over the course of a few days. It’s not hard to watch, in fact, with the exception of a few moments, it’s a charming film. I was excited to watch this film because I am fat, the fattest I’ve ever been. I also have written quite a bit about being fat on the internet. It’s a lawless country, it’s the wild fuckin west.
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Scalawag welcomes Sherronda J. Brown as Editor-in-Chief

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By Da’Shaun Harrison Verified
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As a publication dedicated to liberatory media and a reparative and inclusive future for journalism writ large, Scalawag is ecstatic to welcome Sherronda J. Brown (they/she) to the team as our first-ever Editor-in-Chief. Sherronda's résumé is stacked, and with it comes layers of skill and experience that make her perfect for this role. We first met in 2018 while they were in editorial and writing roles at Black Youth Project and Wear Your Voice Magazine.
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Lambda Literary Award

2022 - Transgender Nonfiction
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Forbes 30 under 30 - MEDIA

2023
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Project HEAL’s Inspire Award

2022
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