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Sophia Jaworski is a PhD candidate in the faculty of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research interests problematize “medically unexplained chronic illness” through reimagining how volatile organic compounds and petrochemical exposures are embodied and figured as toxicants by technoscience. Her dissertation examines environmental sensitivities, as well as social, disability, and data justice using ethnographic fieldwork and experimental methods, interrogating the ways atmospheres shape, and are shaped by, a politics of life and capitalism in Canada. She brings these themes to her media art practice, including works screened in New Toronto Works and Crosscuts Film Festival.