Beauty is Bad Bookclub HAPPENING SUNDAY!

you're literally going to get three emails today from me and I am so sorry for that lmao

ZOOM LINK at the bottom of this email!

The Zoom link is good for every subsequent session, which is happening at 6pm CST every Sunday until we done in this bitch.

you don’t have to read the texts to come hang out and learn and teach! if you want to come and think, come and observe, come and listen, do whatever you want :)

Session One: Studies on Beauty

Question: what is Beauty, where does it come from, and who does it serve?

Readings:

“In The Name of Beauty” by Tressie McMillan Cottom (essay from her book Thick: And Other Essays)

Read or listen to this essay here if you haven’t!

Session Two: The Body and the Politic

Question: what is the political landscape pressing on the way I see the body?

Readings:

Ar’n’t I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South by Deborah Gray White | Chapter One: Jezebel and Mammy: The Mythology of Female Slaves

Session Three: The Body and the Politic (II)

Question: what are the contexts, historically and politically, shaping the formation of Beauty?

Readings:

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

Session Three: Self-Love and Desirability

Questions: What are the political forces influencing how I love my own body? How does fat phobia and the politics of desirability fracture our relationship with ourselves and others?

Readings: Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun L. Harrison, pages 1-32

Session Four: Anti-Fat Propaganda

Question: How has the state weaponized the idea of health and personal responsibility against its populace, especially fat folks?

Readings: Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun L. Harrison, pages 33-84

Session Five: The Case for Gender Abolition

Question: In what was are gender performance and Beauty the same? Can we be critical of Beauty without questioning the gender binary as well?

Readings: Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun L. Harrison, pages 85-105

so excited to give you more essays on this. thank you for waiting for me to get to a safe place. I love and appreciate you all. happy reading!

<3 ismatu g.

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Topic: Beauty is Bad!! The Bookclub

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