ramanpreet a. bahra, M.A, PhD (A.B.D)

RAMANPREET ANNIE BAHRA

  • This is an image exemplifying Foucault's docile body and panopticon, along with a play on Deleuze and Guattari's body withg organs. The image has a fat body [mix of tans for skin colour], in the center of the body, there is a black and white hourglass. There is no head to the body; instead, there is a grid with a guard tower in the center, acting as a metaphor for the panopticon.
    The Docile Body with Organs
  • This is a drawing using pencil crayons. In the background there are two circles - one is the earth for lifeworlds [blue, greens hues], the other is a tan and red earth as a metaphor for deathworlds. On top of the two earths is a yellow hourglass, upon which is an artery. The artery has blood in the top portion to show a pumping of blood for life. The bottom half of the artery is sky blue and white as a metaphor for coldness, bodies going cold and therefore dead.
    The Power and Worlds of Sizeism/Shapeism
  • This is a screenshot of an image I created as a play on the hourglass figure and timer. It has the following texts: Line 1: Sizeism + Shapeism [in pink font colour] Line 2: Mind [purple font] with "dualism leads to disconnect in embodied experience" Line 3: In the hourglass - top triangle - lifeworlds Left-Center of hourglass: "hourglass" BODY + space + time Right-center: "this bodily container of shape presents an archetype of the thin, yet hourglass, curvy feminine archetype + practices of fat oppression [all in Black font] There is a green arrow pointing towards the hourglass diagram. Under the arrow: "the 'good fatty' aims to become the celebrated corporeality of sizeism-shapeism" Bottom center in black font: "folding into the hourglass shape for a temporality of successful heteronormative femininity"
    Sizeism and Shapeism’s Hourglass
  • This is a pencil crayon drawing of the mind/body split. The background is a grid in purple ink with multiple lines in different colours all around. On the left is a headless body with a heart in the chest. On the right, there is a larger image of a brain. There are lines in different colours connecting the two disconnected symbols.
    A Body with Organs: A Disconnected Web of Mind/Body
  • The background features a salmon pink hourglass with a marble-filled circle occupying the space. In the top triangle, it shares the words: ideologies of shapeism, racism, sizeism, healthism, femmephobia, ableism on the corners around the circle: medical industrial complex, diet industrial complex [top]; lifestyle eugenics + neoliberalism, prison industrial complex In the circle in black font: t line 1: the fat body as excess, unruly and failed embodiment line 2: fat futurity = heavy, yet empty vessels of life + 'health' line 3: leaking out of the container = reactive cycles line 4: DEATHWORLDS bottom trianglee: politics, culture
    Close-up on the Hourglasses Deathwords
  • This is a watercolour pencil drawing of a fat body. The backgound is yellow, the fat body is shades of purple.
    The Fat Rhizome (2025)
  • This is a watercolour pencil drawing of a moving body with different shapes embedded and shifting outside the body. This is to exemplify my understanding of rhizomes, and the body as an assemblage
    The Fat Bodymind’s Tangents (2025)
  • image of me presenting at a conference. I am standing on the right wearing a print wrap dress and lanyard. My arms are holding out as I talk with my hands. My hair is falling down my shoulders/back. To the left of me is a projector screen that has a slide sharing a image of the tarot "star" card created by @harleen.illustrates and title of my presentation "The Fat Educator & Posthuman Fat Pedagogy". At the bottom of the image is a projector.
    PCA New Orleans 2025
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Excessive Bodies: A Journal of artistic & Critical Fat praxis & worldmaking
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"My fat body is my home, and I treat my wholeness with kindness and compassion."