about me
I am a scholar activist, rhyme writer, and PhD candidate based in the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London. Drawing on Black feminist affect, critical race STS, transgender studies, and abolition justice, my research addresses how carceral logic – that is, the strategic mindset of the prison -- is embedded in our everydayness and used to discipline, punish, and degrade those that exist in the margins.
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My research takes two distinct but intertwined strands, the first addresses how heteropatriarchal White supremacy plays in and across UK higher education STEM, with a particular focus on the experiences of Black women working in the academe. The research spotlights how UK HE operates under a carceral eye, that is bolstered and maintained through ‘ordinary’ acts of racism, sexism, surveillance, and control. Ultimately the project intends to create a care web where resources can be developed, revised, and shared so as to forge a HE STEM under our own emancipatory terms, lead first and foremost by Black women.
The second focuses on how technologies developed, designed, and refined in the carceral are extending their reach beyond the prison industrial complex into our everydayness under the guise of protection and progress. I argue that these ‘technologies of capture’ have been, and continue to be, deliberately crafted to target and erase Trans and non-binary people, and are weaponised as a means to govern and discipline the ‘deviant’ Trans body. Within this, the research explores how we might begin to unlearn, disrupt, and disassemble carceral technology, and in turn devise our own technologies of liberation and empowerment.
My research is firmly embedded in radical kindness and the abolitionist values of 'dismantle, build, and change'. That is, how we can create models today that can represent how we want to live tomorrow, and provide practical strategies to liberation which allow us all to believe that things can be different. Or rather, how we might work together to survive the present, supporting those that are most vulnerable now, whilst also keeping our eyes on the future.
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Alongside, I am an active member of the UK block of ‘No Tech for Apartheid’, where I am co-steward of the research working group. ‘No Tech for Apartheid’ is a tech worker direct action movement that is actively fighting for Amazon and Google to stop funding the settler colonial state of Israel and the genocide of the Palestinian people. We understand that such corporations can only exist through the labour of tech workers, and as such we have the power to actively withhold this labour, as well as engage in tech activism such as speaking up, leaking, and protesting so as to shake big tech at its foundation.
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Finally, I am a rhyme-writer and associate artist at Anthoplay Theatre. My spoken word focuses on radical trans care, anger ⇌ joy, surviving the psychiatric industrial complex, existing and resisting in a ‘deviant’ body, and how totally fucked the system is. Most recently I performed at Clapham Fringe Festival, ‘Queer Talk Live!’, Anthoplay Theatres’ ‘Anthrotalks’, and Poetry LGBT. If you wanna hear my words then check the spoken word page and/or give me a follow me on instagram.
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Assigned skate rat at birth. My pronouns are he/they 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
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