[Book Review] Belly of the Beast
Find Your Food Voice
Julie Duffy Dillon RDN
4.9 • 750 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Yeli and Julie talk about Belly of the Beast by Da'Shaun L. Harrison. They discuss dismantling the systems that oppress fat Black people, the downsides to health at every size, and the ways that anti-fatness and anti-Blackness manifest into fatphobia and police brutality.
Content warning for police brutality.
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Mentioned in this episode: Belly of the Beast / She's All Fat Episode: Revisiting HAES / She's All Fat Episode: Desirability & Insecurity / Da'Shaun's Instagram / Yeli's Bookstagram
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| 0:00.0 | Bags are packed, are you ready to go? |
| 0:14.0 | This time tomorrow will be on the road. |
| 0:20.0 | Riding with you in the sunny earth This time tomorrow will be on the road. |
| 0:26.3 | Riding with you in the sunnier days. |
| 0:31.2 | I wouldn't want it any other way. |
| 0:37.3 | It's time to name the neglect from typical food advice. |
| 0:43.4 | Welcome to the Find Your Food Voice podcast, hosted by me, Julie Duffy Dillon. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm a registered dietitian with 20 years of experience partnering with folks just like you on their food piece journey. |
| 0:52.3 | What have we learned? |
| 0:56.6 | Well, cookie cutter approaches exclude too many people people and you don't need to be fixed. It's not you. It's not me. It's all of us. Only together we can start a |
| 1:05.2 | movement and fix diet culture. And we will. Let's begin with now. I want to see how the world turns round. |
| 1:16.6 | Let's go adventure in the deep blue sheet. |
| 1:20.6 | Home is with you wherever that may be. |
| 1:26.6 | Home is with you wherever that may be. Home is with you wherever that baby. |
| 1:30.3 | Hey there, welcome to the Find Your Food Voice podcast. |
| 1:38.3 | I am Julie Duffy Dylan, registered dietitian, and partner on your food piece journey. Welcome to episode 278 where I'm going |
| 1:48.4 | to be chatting with Yeli Cruz. Yeli is a production assistant for the Find Your Food Voice podcast |
| 1:55.1 | and she's been working with me for about six or seven months now and she is someone that is a bibliophile. She is super into books |
| 2:05.4 | and suggested that we start to include book reviews as a part of the show. So the first book we read |
| 2:12.6 | was, get a life Chloe Brown. I had to think about it for a second. Get a life Chloe Brown, which you can see |
| 2:19.8 | in a previous episode. We'll link it in the show notes for you here. And this is our second book. |
| 2:25.3 | And this second book is Belly of the Beast by Deshawn Harrison. This book, as you are going to hear in our conversation was really influential to Yeli and me |
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