The suppression of pro-Palestine press alongside the decreased funding for media and progressive causes is especially clarifying given the scale of resources being dedicated to supporting the Zionist entity and, by extension, its genocide.
Da'Shaun L. Harrison
Da’Shaun Harrison is a queer and trans afropessimist and anarcho-communist born and bred in the South. 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 received several other media and literary honors. As a movement media and narrative strategist, Harrison draws from a deep history of community organizing—beginning in 2014 during their first year at Morehouse College—to inform their cultural criticism and political thought.
Through the lens of what Harrison terms “Black Fat Studies,” they lecture widely on the intersections of blackness, fatness, and gender. Harrison currently serves as Co-Executive Director of Scalawag Magazine, where they were previously the magazine’s first Editor-at-Large. They are also a co-founder of the Movement Media Alliance (MMA), which houses projects such as Media Against Apartheid & Displacement (MAAD), Communities Beyond Elections (CBE), and other collaborative media efforts.
