A Canadian professor who specializes in “fat studies” claimed that aiming for an obesity-free future was “fatphobic” and blasted the “biopolitics” agenda as an attack against fat people.

Fady Shanouda is an associate professor at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton University in Canada. Shanouda “draws on feminist new materialism” to examine the intersections between “fat studies, “colonialism, racism…, and queer- and transphobia.”

The Critical Disability Studies scholar wrote that it was “fatphobic” to have a public health conversation and to tamp down on obesity, according to a Monday article in The Conversation.