Teaser - Body Fascism w/ Da’Shaun L. Harrison

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🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/153205544 Beatrice speaks with Da’Shaun L. Harrison about how the body itself is being mobilized as a nationalist symbol under the second Trump administration and what it will take to fight back. Read Da'Shaun's piece here: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/03/let-us-explain-body-fascism/ Find Da'Shaun's book Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness here: https://bookshop.org/a/118130/9781623175979 Runtime 1:27:05 MERCH STORE IS BACK! Patrons get a code for 10% off all orders. Find it at www.deathpanel.net/merch We're testing out a new Bookshop.org page (still under construction), where you can find books by past guests and book recommendations from the hosts. Find it here: bookshop.org/shop/deathpanel Show links: Get Health Communism here: bookshop.org/a/118130/9781839765179

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0:00.0	To hear the full episode, become a patron at patreon.com slash death panel pod.
0:06.5	Welcome to the death panel.
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0:38.1	Death Panel underscore.
0:40.0	I'm Beatrice Saldler Bolton and today I'm honored to be joined by returning guest and dear
0:44.0	friend of the panel, the brilliant Deshaun Harrison, to talk about their recent essay for Scalawag
0:48.4	magazine called Let Us Explain Body Fascism.
0:51.7	Deshaun is a queer and trans theorist, anarcho-communist, afro-pessimist, and Southern
0:56.2	Born and bred abolitionists based in Atlanta.
0:59.1	They're an author, lecturer, researcher, editor, and a movement media and narrative strategist.
1:04.0	Their award-winning book, Belly of the Beast, The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness,
1:08.8	is a path-breaking intervention and the key text in black fat
1:12.8	studies, just hands down an absolute must-read fantastic book.
1:17.4	Deshaun also is a co-executive director of Scalawagg magazine, a co-host of the podcast, unsolicited
1:23.1	Fatty's Talk Back, and one-third of the video podcast in the middle.
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