Aerik Francis
ANTI-ELEGY FOR BLACK FAT
The Black fat is not dying from being obese… The Black– the Black fat– is dying because of a
medical industrial complex committed to seeing fatness, Blackness, and Black fatness as death.
—Da’Shaun Harrison
I’ve desired my own assassination
for longer than I have imagined
exalting my Black my Fat body–
I am now cultivating love, though it’s not enough
against all the fatal regimes spelled d-i-e
-t industrial complex to consume
abundance into thanatological capital.
The desire to remove my Black fat–
Socialized systemically. Ends are needed
beyond bodies. I want to love & live
the Blackest parts– Us– Ours–
the Fattest parts– Us– Ours–
Shamed to death– I feel & resist:
This is a politic. I want beyond
fat necropolitical desire. I want
the end of this world– Badly.