Leah’s Reviews > Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness > Status Update

"As Oliver stares, fat people do tend to die at higher rates than their thin counterparts, but it isn't because of their weight. Fat people tend to die at higher rates than thin people because doctors misdiagnose them, or refuse to treat them, due to their fatness."

On Tamir Rice: "From the moment he died, the blame for his murder was the size of his body -- not the officer who shot him."