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May Friedman is a professor at Toronto Metropolitan University, where her research examines unstable identities and the ways bodies conform to traditional racial and national aesthetic lines. She employs intersectional approaches in fat studies, considering the diverse and fluid experiences of fat oppression and fat activism. Utilizing a range of arts-based methods, including digital storytelling, she analyses the significance of treasured garments and explores the meanings shaped by representation in the embodiment of experiences. As a faculty member in the School of Social Work and the Toronto Metropolitan University/York graduate program in Communication and Culture, her recent publications include discussions on the impacts of fat pregnancy and reproduction in the 'Fat Studies Handbook' published by Routledge, and the application of an intersectionality lens in research on motherhood during COVID in her work titled 'It feels a bit like drowning' published in Atlantis in 2021.
Department of Chemical Engineering