Body-ody-ody

While photovoice, a visual methodology, is widely known for helping to deepen the understanding of participant experiences and informing institutional change, it has rarely centered Black imagery from our unique cultural, historical, and political standpoints. Drawing on insights from a photovoice project titled #FatOnCampus, the authors focus on the compelling imagery and narratives of Serena Moon, a self-identified fat Black graduate student. Through Serena’s contributions, analyzed with assumptions from endarkened feminist epistemology (Dillard, 2006), this article examines how Black cultural perspectives around bodies and fatphobia can manifest in photovoice projects, particularly with Black collaborators and researchers. This endarkened photovoice approach seeks to harness photovoice’s transformative potential, emphasizing self-liberation and self-healing for Black folx. The article ends by inviting scholars to consider how endarkened photovoice can advance research methodologies and deepen our understanding of Black communities and individuals in and across higher education.