Clarkisha Kent

Clarkisha Kent is a Nigerian American writer, culture critic, former columnist, and author of Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto. Her writing has been featured in outlets like Entertainment Weekly, Essence, gal-dem, PAPER, BET, HuffPost, MTV News, The Root, and more.

She is also the creator of #TheKentTest, a media litmus test designed to evaluate the quality of representation that exists for Black women and women of color in film and other media. Additionally, she co-created a more recent media litmus test—with fat liberation activist SydneySky G—titled The Kelli & Kat Test. The test was crafted in order to analyze the caliber of media that exists for fat [Black] women and/or non-men.