Ramanpreet A. Bahra, M.A, PhD (A.B.D)

RAMANPREET ANNIE BAHRA

  • 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
  • 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 screenshot of two pages in a zine created by members of the Fat Studies Research Cluster. This is a page created specifically by me of various things that feel, look, affirm fat(ness) for me. Some images are of my dog Astro and I, green sunglasses, ginger, book covers, and statements like "my eyes see no fatphobic lies"
    Collages as Fat Feminist Methods: Zine & Me Edition
  • 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)
  • This is the cover of the book, "Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)Mapping the Field" (Taylor et al., 2023). The cover is Purple with an image by Leslie Walters of three naked fat bodies laying as if they were a landscape next to Lake Ontario. From a fa the skyline of Toronto is visible.
    A edited book collection by Taylor, Ioannoni, Bahra, Evans, Scriver & Friedman (Inanna Publications, 2023)
  • a black and white drawing of a comic with 4 panels. There are trees, soil, and a fat person drawn out in nature.
    Resistance: Drawing Fat Bodies, Inspired by Mollie Cronin’s Critical Femininities: Connections 2025 Workshop
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Excessive Bodies: A Journal of artistic & Critical Fat praxis & worldmaking
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"My fat, brown, femme body is my home, and I treat my wholeness with kindness and compassion."