Today’s conversation is with Courtney Patterson-Faye, who teaches in the Department of Sociology at Wesleyan University. In addition to essays on Black feminist theory, fat studies, and sexuality and cultural studies, she is the author of The Body Contract: Black Women, Culture, and the Impossibilities of Fatness, forthcoming on NYU Press. In this conversation, we discuss the expansiveness of Black study, the relevance of Black Fat Studies for the field, and how Black Studies makes critical interventions inside disciplines.