Da’Shaun Harrison

Nov 25, 2024 | prismreports.org | Da’Shaun Harrison |Carolyn Copeland

For all of my life, I have been fat. Even at my smallest, I was larger than everyone else around me. A lot of kids loved me—and I was a very argumentative child who learned at an early age how to advocate for myself, so I never necessarily allowed anyone who didn’t love me to bully me—but I was picked on often for being fat. And for eating. Eating is an essential part of life. If we do not eat, our bodies do not get the necessary nutrients they need, and our organs fail us.

May 30, 2023 | scalawagmagazine.org | Da’Shaun Harrison

As a publication dedicated to liberatory media and a reparative and inclusive future for journalism writ large, Scalawag is ecstatic to welcome Sherronda J. Brown (they/she) to the team as our first-ever Editor-in-Chief. Sherronda's résumé is stacked, and with it comes layers of skill and experience that make her perfect for this role. We first met in 2018 while they were in editorial and writing roles at Black Youth Project and Wear Your Voice Magazine.

May 22, 2023 | scalawagmagazine.org | Tea Troutman |Da’Shaun Harrison

Two weeks ago, Scalawag launched our inaugural "Week of Writing," a series intended to support the #StopCopCity movement by igniting the power of radical Southern alternative media platforms. With it, we amplified the narratives elevated by the organizers actively engaged in the struggle to defend the Weelaunee Forest. This radical strategy is a direct strike against the City of Atlanta's most powerful tool: their control of Atlanta's Big Media complex.

Mar 31, 2023 | scalawagmagazine.org | Da’Shaun Harrison

"We are at war, and we've been at war for over 400-something years now […] I want [freedom], and I'll die for this." Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice and founder/CEO of the Tamir Rice Foundation, spoke those words on a recent roundtable about family, freedom, and security, moderated by Joy James. Those words took me back to the foreword I wrote for James's most recent title, In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities, and the return to that foreword brought me here.

Mar 28, 2023 | scalawagmagazine.org | Da’Shaun Harrison |Eva Dickerson

Editor's note: This essay was originally published in WearYourVoice magazine at the height of the summer 2020 uprisings, when the murder of Atlanta's Rayshard Brooks and the violent police response to protestors warranted a deeper understanding of the intimate connections between Atlanta and Palestine's respective carceral apparatuses—both of which mutually benefit from the GILEE program.