Panel Conversation: Ozempic Imaginaries & Fatness as Method

• Hybrid event
• A720, Loeb Building, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6

• Contact
• soc-anthro@cunet.carleton.ca

Abstract:

Semaglutide injections such as Ozempic and Wegovy are no longer brand new. Heralded as transformative and groundbreaking, they constellate various social imaginaries of healing, cure, illness prevention, prosthetic self-control, and more. What worlds, ways of being, and structures of feeling are brought into being by both semaglutide boosters and opponents? What methods should those of us committed to the idea that people should flourish while fat take up in thinking about our current moment? Should we thicken, fatten, and slow down our praxes – or something else entirely? What issues in health justice and fat liberation do we need to hold in mind as we address these questions? Join Fat Studies scholars Fady Shanouda,  Faith Stadnyk and Jade Sullivan for a panel conversation on these and other questions!

Biographies:

Dr. Fady Shanouda (he/him) is a disability justice scholar whose interdisciplinary work intersects Disability, Mad, and Fat Studies. His research critically examines how human and non-human assemblages come to constitute certain bodyminds as problems. Within Fat Studies, Fady is interested in investigating how fatness is constructed, regulated, and resisted across cultural, medical, and built environments. This includes addressing how public discourse, institutional policy, and design practices create conditions of exclusion for fat people, while also documenting and amplifying fat activism and liberation.

Faith Stadnyk (she/her) uses intersectional, feminist disability, fat studies, and critical eating dis/order perspectives to mark and challenge white supremacy, ableism, anti-fatness, healthism, anti-Blackness, settler colonialism, and intersecting modes of oppression within healthcare and broader well-being landscapes. Faith is in her second year of her PhD in Sociology at Carleton University.

Jade Sullivan (she/they) is a feminist geographer and PhD researcher in Sociology at Carleton University, based in Ottawa. Their doctoral work investigates race, gender, and health inequities within Canada’s drug policy and healthcare infrastructures, drawing on Black feminist, decolonial, and anti-oppressive approaches. As a statistician at Statistics Canada, Jade contributes to national projects on race- and gender-based data, advancing data justice and equity-informed policy analysis across public health and community contexts.