Black Student Leader Says AIPAC Disinvited Him For Taking Part In A Protest Against Hillary Clinton
Da’Shaun Harrison, vice president of the NAACP chapter at Morehouse College says he was disinvited from this year’s AIPAC conference after learning he had previously taken part in a protest against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
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Da'Shaun Harrison
Da’Shaun Harrison is a Black trans theorist and storyteller in Atlanta, GA. Harrison has risen to national acclaim with the release of their debut title, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness—published in August 2021. Belly of the Beast won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction, and since then, Harrison has been the recipient of ProjectHEAL’s “Inspire Award” and was listed as a Forbes 30 under 30 (Media) honoree. Harrison lectures on Blackness, fatness, gender, and their intersections. Harrison currently serves as Editor-at-Large at Scalawag Magazine and is the co-host of the podcast “Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back.” Between the years 2019 and 2021, Harrison served as Associate Editor — and later as Managing Editor — of Wear Your Voice Magazine.