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I was raised in a Caribbean Diaspora in the Netherlands and moved to London to study, do my PhD and eventually work as a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. Having moved back to Amsterdam after 15 years, ‘where is home?’ remains a complicated question, but I am moving with its (im)possibilities and currently work across different institutions and cities and countries. I am a Senior Lecturer in the Humanities Department at Erasmus University College in Rotterdam; I convene the Gender and Sexuality seminars at the Rietveld Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam; I work as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Smith School for Social Work in Northampton Massachusetts USA during the summer; and I co-facilitate the RASL Summer Studio as part of the Rotterdam Arts and Sciences Lab.​

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My current transdisciplinary research and teaching practice is focused on bringing the arts, social studies and theory together. My research interests centre around the materiality of bodies as socio-historic and cultural sites of power, transformation and rupture. I am interested in interrogating what it means to be human, what it means to live on the edges of such an ontology and the more liveable futures that reside in its cracks and shadows - with particular attention to the nonhuman, not-quite-human and more-than-human. I am deeply interested in sensory research that mobilises theoretical engagement with sense and sense-making and a more phenomenological experience of sensation – how we make sense of worlds, selves and the way we move through. I am particularly focused on moments of collapse and ruination, the times when life seems to fall apart and we come undone. Here I am looking for the glimmers of being human otherwise to be found in the promises of the ruins and what remains.

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I completed a PhD in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London,  (2013) after studying Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. Through my interest in gender and sexuality studies I left Philosophy as a discipline and made my way into the more transdisciplinary fields of queer and feminist theory, new materialisms and black studies. My research into bodies and their materialities has resulted in my book Materialities of Sex in a Time of HIV: The Promise of Vaginal Microbicides and a range of articles published in Feminist Review, Journal of Science and Technology Studies, Journal of Visual Cultures, philoSOPHIA and more.

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Alongside and throughout my academic career I worked as a corsetier and costumer with my own brand in custom design for over 10 years. Recently I decided to stop working on commission and explore textiles and corseting techniques as an art practice and mode of practice research.

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This website houses my different writings, research projects and artistic engagements.

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