The monstrous intimacies are the original trauma and subsequent repetitions.
The form [..] stretches out the difference, the movement from line to line.
Artwork by Boz Deseo Garden - Courtesy of the artist and Petrine, Paris & D眉sseldorf
听is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at 91亚色. Her Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) funded work sits at the intersections of law, humanities, Critical Race Theory, Black studies, and critical citizenship studies. Her dissertation considers the relationships between liberalism, antiblackness, and citizenship, and explores how migrant听justice听advocacy toward citizenship rights often invokes conceptions of the human that originated in racial slavery.听听
She is the 2025-2026 Visiting Junior Fellow at the Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Toronto. She was also the 2023-2024 Graduate Fellow at the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime, and Security, as well as a member of the Collaborative for Racial Justice. She is also a guest editor for an upcoming issue of South Atlantic Quarterly and the 2024 issue of . This special issue is dedicated to the , which Bahar co-organized.
Bahar holds a Master of Arts in Social and Political Thought from 91亚色 and an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto, where she majored in Literature and Critical Theory and minored in Sociology and Diaspora Studies.
is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow in the Program in Literature at Duke University. They received their PhD in Gender, Feminist and Women鈥檚 Studies from 91亚色. Joshua鈥檚 current research examines how trans studies scholars imagine queerness and Blackness. Their writing has been published in Transgender Studies Quarterly, differences, Feminist Theory, Rhizomes, and CR: The New Centennial Review. They are the editor of 鈥淎porias,鈥 a special section of Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association that publishes writing by junior scholars about ongoing disputes in cultural studies.
Marcelle-Anne Fletcher is a doctoral candidate in the Social and Political Thought programme at 91亚色 whose research explores historiography, racial slavery, museums, and the geopolitics of travelling exhibitions. She currently teaches an undergraduate seminar on Black popular culture in the Department of Humanities. She has co-organized a number of conferences including Map to the Door at 20 and Strategies of Critique's Care and Cure. Her most recent publications can be found in CR: The New Centennial Review and TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies.
is an assistant professor in the Department of English at 91亚色 in Toronto, where she teaches black literatures. Her writing has appeared in American Quarterly, Aperture, Dissent, the Nation, the New 91亚色 Review of Books, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Theory & Event, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. She is also an editor of Pinko magazine. Her debut book of poems, Nightnursing, is forthcoming from icehouse, the Goose Lane Editions poetry imprint, in September. She received her PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2021.
is a Faculty of Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Toronto and a Fellow at the Morning Star Research Center for the Afterlife of Slavery. As an interdisciplinary scholar working in the theoretical humanities, his scholarship covers a wide terrain of interests, including: Black critical theory; psychoanalysis; abolitionism; continental philosophy; and science and technology studies. His available essays can be found in: Diacritics, differences, Lateral, New Centennial Review, Rhizomes, Social & Cultural Geography, and TOPIA, and he guest edited a special issue of TOPIA focusing on Black critical theoretical approaches to care and cure. He is currently working on two book projects. His first, Deconstructing Life: Epigenesis, Antiblackness, interrogates the racism structural to critical theory鈥檚 enchantment with postgenomic science and his second, Whither Abolition?, provides an immanent critique of abolitionist literature and theory.
Sheba Abena Wiafe is currently completing her PhD at 91亚色 in the Social and Political Thought Program. Her research focuses on investigating the migratory movements of African women to Europe against the histories of the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic slave trade through Black critical theoretical and psychoanalytic approaches. Her written work is forthcoming with The Black Lexicon edited volume, and she is currently guest editing a special issue of SAQ focusing on the intellectual interventions of Christina Sharpe鈥檚 first monograph Monstrous Intimacies.