Hi, everyone. This is Sud Krishna-Morthy. Welcome back to another episode of the Anti-Racism Medicine

series of the Clinical Problem Solvers podcast. As always, our goal on this podcast is to

equip our listeners at all levels of training with the consciousness and tools to practice

anti-racism in their health professions careers. Today's episode is focused on the topics of

anti-fatness and the culture of eating and how these two concepts are deeply intertwined

with anti-blackness. And to talk about this with us, we have two incredible guests.

Ashley, would you like to go ahead and introduce her first guest?

Thanks, Sid. Dr. Sykew Williams-Forson is a professor and chair of the Department of

American Studies at the University

of Maryland College Park. She is the author of two award-winning books, eating while black,

food shaming, and race in America, and building houses out of chicken legs, black women, food and

power, as well as the co-edited taking food public, redefining food ways in a changing food world.

Her work can also be found in several other publications and on podcasts and documentaries.

Dr. Williams-Forsen received her BA from the University of Virginia and her MA and PhD in American Studies from the University of Maryland.

Thank you so much for being here with us today, Dr. Williams-Forson.

Thanks for having me.

I have the honor of introducing Deshaun.

Deshaun Harrison is a trans theorist and southern-born and bred abolitionist in Atlanta, Georgia.

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 and Literary Honors.

As an editor, movement media, and narrative strategist, and storyteller,

Harrison uses their extensive history as a community organizer,

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