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

Ramanpreet Annie Bahra (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Sociology at York University, Toronto and a contract teaching faculty member at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo. She is interested in the areas of fat studies, disability studies, social theory, particularly feminist new materialism, and race and racism. Her doctoral work explores how fat South Asians in Canada navigate the entwined experiences of ‘feeling fat’ and ‘feeling brown.’ As an educator, Bahra advocates for a posthumanist fat pedagogy rooted in bodymind-centered, relational, and emotionally attuned teaching. Her most recent works examine the uncaring logics of medicine and access to health/care for fat, brown, and otherwise-racialized communities, envisioning a collective fat politics of care. Ramanpreet is co-founder of the Canadian Sociological Association’s Fat Studies Research Cluster and co-manager of Excessive Bodies: A Journal of Artistic and Critical Fat Praxis and Worldmaking

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