Episode 108: Da’Shaun Harrison

Tuck speaks with theorist, author, and abolitionist Da’Shaun Harrison (they/them). Topics include:

• The way fatness functions as its own gender
• Working towards a better world without hope that we’ll achieve it
• Why the concept of health is unsalvageable 
• Why we’re tired of talking about pronouns with cis people 
• Plus: destroying gender!

This Week in Gender: WPATH’s Standards of Care 8 is open for public comment through Dec 16.

Find Da’Shaun and Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness at linktr.ee/DaShaunLH.

References: “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe” by Hortense J. Spillers.

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Associate Producer: Julia Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: “Littl John ” by Blue Dot Sessions
Sponsors: Enby (promo code: GenderReveal) and Rev Nat’s (promo code: SNACKS)