The Future Is Fat: Theorizing Time in Relation to Body Weight and Stigma - Hardcover

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Jen Rinaldi is Associate Professor in Legal Studies at Ontario Tech University. She engages with narrative and arts-based methodologies to deconstruct eating disorder recovery, and to re-imagine recovery in relation to queer community. Rinaldi also works in collaboration with Recounting Huronia, an arts-based collective that documents institutional violence.

May Friedman is a faculty member in the Ryerson University School of Social Work and Ryerson/York graduate program in Communication and Culture. May's research looks at unstable identities, including bodies that do not conform to traditional racial and national or aesthetic lines.

Emily R.M. Lind is a college professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Okanagan College in Kelowna, British Columbia. Her research examines the intersections between power, embodiment, and identity. Recent publications explore feminist approaches to pregnancy loss, whiteness and anti-racist feminism, weight stigma in reproductive healthcare, and fat liberation.

Crystal Kotow is writer, activist, and educator whose research explores fat women's relationships with their bodies. She got her PhD from York University, and is a self-identified fat feminist killjoy who practices radical vulnerability in her activism, storytelling, and community building.

Tracy Tidgwell is a cultural producer working in the folds of queer and disability arts. She is the creator of Fat Work, a photographic series of fat women that explores fatness, class, and labour, a core member of Fat Rose, a fat liberation cross-movement incubator, and the Research Project Manager at Re¿Vision: The Centre for Art and Social Justice, University of Guelph.