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Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness NY Wash Day Diaries tells the**The 2022 Lammy Award Winner in Transgender Nonfiction** Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing. To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti fatness as anti Blackness. Hyper policed by state and society, passed over for housing and jobs, and derided and misdiagnosed by medical professionals, fat Black people in the United