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Or, I would say it's much broader than being sexual. I struggle to make generalizations about it. People tend to want to whump characters they find attractive, and whump is about the character's body. Obviously bodies can be sexual and are deeply related to sexuality, but it isn't just about the sexuality of the body, it's about the body's vulnerability, the body's need for care, the body's experience of pain, the body's psychological and emotional meanings.

Where whump has a relationship with pain kink, it is just as closely related to masochism as it is sadism.

Whump is not a sexual thing for me, but I've always been interested in whump and I've always been a masochist, and it just...doesn't make sense to me that these things would be totally unrelated. Like, come on now.

I think for most people, whump is about catharsis in some way. For me personally, the appeal is about taking a character who is strong and untouchable and digging into the ways they are weak and need care. It's about a character who isn't expected, or maybe isn't allowed, or maybe is terrified and ashamed, to show pain or weakness finally "breaking" and being able to receive comfort and reassurance. It's about the shame of needing care and the fraught nature of trusting someone with that.

It's about the horror of the body's vulnerability; digging into the ways a body can experience helplessness and violation and really acknowledging how awful that feels and how scary that is.

It's about pain as an inherently private experience, something invisible that can't be objectively measured, and the ways that pain is made visible and the ways pain is judged to need care or to not need care, and how that judgment affects the experience of pain.

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If you like the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, check out some later period big band albums like Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus and The Roar of '84 by Buddy Rich.

Read from Black authors this Black History Month and every month!

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Belly of The Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun L. Harrison

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

Fat Girls In Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own by Joy Arlene Renee Cox, PhD

Fattily Ever After: The Fat, Black Girls' Guide to Living Life Unapologetically by Stephanie Yeboah

Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women's Unruly Political Bodies by Andrea Elizabeth Shaw

Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes From a Trap Feminist by Sesali Bowen

Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation by Dalia Kinsey, RD, LD

Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

Fat. Black. Femme. Revealing The Power of Visibly Queer Voices in Media and Learning to Love Yourself by Jonathan P. Higgins, Ed.D.

Reclaiming The Black Body: Nourishing the Home Within by Alishia McCullough, LCMHC

The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom by Chrissy King

#VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE: The Fat Girl's Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini by Nicole Byer

It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting The Story of Black Women’s Bodies by Jessica Wilson, MS, RD

Fat On, Fat Off: A Big Bitch Manifesto by Clarkisha Kent

Romance With Voluptuousness: Caribbean Women and Thick Bodies In The United States by Kamille Gentles-Peart