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

Writing our stories into the canon…

“My academic journey as a fat scholar has been driven by the desire to fill gaps in the literature, particularly in theorizing the fat brown experience, which is deeply intertwined with colonial discourses of the body.”

Bahra in “Feminisms in Focus” (2025)

Publications

Here are some publications where you can find Ramanpreet and her stories of culture and identities.

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Bahra, Feral Feminisms (2025)
Bahra, Excessive BodieS Vol. 2
This is the first page of a publication titled "Fattening our Worldmakings: A Critical Fat Posthumanist Assemblage of Care" in the open-access journal, Feral Feminisms (volume 4, issue 2). On the top left corner, there is a red rectangle with the Feral Feminisms logo "ff" and text italicized), : Feral feminisms, Excess, Issue 14.2 Summer (2025). There is text on page..
This is the first page of the PDF of the article "Reimagining Our Worlds and Future: Let's Fatten It!". from open access journal, Excessive Bodies: A Journal of Artistic and Critical Fat Praxis and Worldmaking, Volume 2 (issue 1). There is text on the page. The only image is located in the top left corner. It is the logo of the journal: The bush of a tree and the title of the journal underneath.
Bahra, Excessive Bodies Vol. 2
Bahra, Excessive Bodies Vol. 1
This is the first page of the PDF of the article "A Multisensory Assemblage of our Fatness: Weaving the Affective Entanglements of Fat Politic Across Distance". from open access journal, Excessive Bodies: A Journal of Artistic and Critical Fat Praxis and Worldmaking, Volume 2 (issue 1). There is text on the page. The only image is located in the top left corner. It is the logo of the journal: The bush of a tree and the title of the journal underneath.
This is the first page of the PDF of the article "An Excessively Fat Introduction". from open access journal, Excessive Bodies: A Journal of Artistic and Critical Fat Praxis and Worldmaking, Volume 1. There is text on the page. The only image is located in the top left corner. It is the logo of the journal: The bush of a tree and the title of the journal underneath.
Bahra’s work in Fat Studies: (Re)Mapping the field (2023)
This is the first page of the introductory chapter for Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)Mapping the Field. It is all text in black on white background.
This is the first page of my single-authored chapter for Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)Mapping the Field. It is all text in black on white background.
Bahra in Thickening Fat
Bahra in Fat Studies Journal (2018)
This is the first page of the chapter written by me and James Overboe for Thickening Fat: Fat Bodies, Intersectionality and Social Justice. It is all text in black on white background.
This is the first page of an article I wrote for the special issue on fatness and temporality in the Fat Studies Journal.

Interviews

Bahra in Conversation with Dr. Ioannoni & Edwards,
Centre of Feminist Research (2025)
This is a screen image of the published interview between Dr. Kelsey Ioannoni, Mackenzie Edwards and I on our work in Excessive Bodies. This is shared on the theme of "Feminisms in Focus" at the Centre of Feminist Research, hosted at York University.

Edited Collection

Purchase Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)Mapping the Field

This is the cover of the edited book, Fat Studies in Canada: (Re)Mapping the Field. It is a dark magenta background with white texts in capital letters with the image of a beach with fat bodies laying as if they are land, mountains, etc. with the ocean and Toronto skyline in the background. In the center and bottom of the text is the list of editors.
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