Projects
Haunting
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Erotics
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Decolonial Pedagogy
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Black Improvisation
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Haunting ✳︎ Erotics ✳︎ Decolonial Pedagogy ✳︎ Black Improvisation ✳︎
Bodies that Haunt Writing Group
Cultural Studies, Volume 39, Issue 6 (2025)
This special issue rethinks methods of apprehending the global traffic in racialised death. The authors situate this conversation in ongoing work in cultural studies and interdisciplinary studies of race, gender, and empire surrounding haunting, unpacking its analytic and material possibilities as they are embedded in and emerge against the global catastrophe of capitalism.
We ask: How do bodies transgress the frames that construe them as exchangeable objects in global neoliberal imaginaries and economies, haunting and producing the unsmoothness of capitalist flow? What critical reimaginings of bodies, particularly the excesses and hauntings which characterise racialised death and the racialised condition of death in life, offer right relation with these transgressions? With what implications for global collective politics and life?
In writing toward these questions and in the context of our commitments to our own bodies that haunt, this essay endeavours to take seriously practices of haunting and begin to model such practices in ways that rewrite relations to those we make life alongside: present, no longer, and not yet.
RISD - Decolonial Teaching In Action
Decolonial Teaching in Action is a seminar hosted by Social Equity & Inclusion which offers a semester-long, reading group for RISD faculty, librarians, and staff to engage questions of decolonization, power, and pedagogy. This seminar engages the fields of Black Studies, Native Studies, Feminist Studies, and Geography through concepts such as decoloniality, anti-blackness, dispossession, settler colonialism, border imperialism, knowledge production, queerness, and futurity.
Call to Remember is a shared offering of improvisation, experimentation, and conjuring exploring Black pedagogy, artistry, and activism in dance.
Gender Studies Salon @ RISD
This Gender Studies Salon brought together scholars and practitioners in the fields of Feminist Studies, Trans Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Transpersonal Psychology to discuss the history, current life, and future visions of Gender Studies.
Women of the Bijlmer: Stories of Survival and Community Organizing in the Southeast of Amsterdam
School for International Training Amsterdam, The Netherlands
In 2012, while studying aboard in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, I conducted an independent research project entitled Women of the Bijlmer: Stories of Survival in Southeast Amsterdam which analyzed the life histories and community organizing strategies of eight Afro-Surinamese women living in Southeast Amsterdam.
Vassar College Queer Oral History Project
From 2012-2014, I was the lead undergraduate researcher of the Vassar College Queer Oral History Project where I conducted over 11 interviews with queer and gender non-confirming alumni and professors. These interview recordings and transcripts are currently held in the Thompson Memorial Library Archives and Special Collections.
Real Cost of Prisons Project
During summer 2013, I worked as an archivist for the Real Cost of Prisons Project, a nationally renowned non-profit working to end the carceral state by connecting researchers and policy makers with women and men directly experiencing the impact of mass incarceration. I analyzed and archived over a decade’s worth of essays, reports, prose, and comics authored by incarcerated activists between 2002-2013. These materials are housed in Special Collections & University Archives at The University of Massachusetts Amherst W.E.B DuBois Memorial Library.