The First 'My Community Matters' Rally In Wilmington NC with Da’Shaun Harrison

About Da’Shaun Harrison

Award-winning scholar Da’Shaun Harrison was born and raised in Wilmington, NC. It’s safe to say that Da’Shaun was very involved with his school, having recently graduated from Hoggard High School in 2014 with a 4.2 GPA. But not only did Da’Shaun excel inside the classroom, but he was also very involved outside the classroom becoming the First African American Male Drum Major to ever walk the campus. Not to mention being a survivor of atrial fibrillation, it seems no matter what the test is Da’Shaun always finds a way to pass with flying colors. Now a man of Morehouse College, a Historically Black College & University in Atlanta, GA, Da’Shaun is a member of the NAACP, and other organizations on campus working to make the world a better place.

This was a successful rally and event that the small coastal town of Wilmington NC needed and they really showed their support!

Special thanks to Photographer Jerome Mack

Da'Shaun Harrison

Da’Shaun Harrison is a trans theorist and Southern-born and bred abolitionist in Atlanta, GA. 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 several other media/literary honors. As an editor, movement media and narrative strategist, and storyteller, Harrison uses their extensive history as a community organizer—which began in 2014 during their first year at Morehouse College—to frame their political thought and cultural criticism. Through the lens of what Harrison calls “Black Fat Studies,” they lecture on blackness, fatness, gender, and their intersections. Harrison currently serves as Editor-at-Large at Scalawag Magazine, is a co-host of the podcast “Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back,” and ⅓ of the video podcast “In The Middle.” Between the years 2019 and 2021, Harrison served as Associate Editor—and later as Managing Editor—of Wear Your Voice Magazine.

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