Postcolonial studies | The Harriet Tubman Institute /research/tubman The Harriet Tubman Institute at 91亚色 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:12:09 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Isabella Akaliza /research/tubman/profile/isabella-akaliza/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:56:03 +0000 /research/tubman/?post_type=profile&p=8949 Isabella Akaliza is a 3rd year PhD candidate in Gender, Feminist, and Women鈥檚 Studies at 91亚色. Her research examines the lived experiences of African sex workers, centring Audre Lorde鈥檚 theory of the erotic as a site of connection, relationality, and knowledge production. Engaging Black feminist thought and transnational feminist methodologies, her work challenges dominant western framings of sex work by foregrounding embodied, reciprocal research practices. She is committed to Black feminist approaches that prioritise ethical engagement and relational accountability, and is particularly interested in global sex work politics and the role of the erotic in feminist knowledge production.

Keywords: Black Feminism Thought, Sex Work Studies, African Feminisms, Transnational Feminisms, Postcolonial Studies, Race and Racism

]]> Bianca Beauchemin /research/tubman/profile/bianca-beauchemin/ Fri, 01 Sep 2023 17:23:32 +0000 /research/tubman/?post_type=profile&p=7241 Bianca Beauchemin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women鈥檚 Studies at 91亚色. She recently was the 2022-2023 recipient of the postdoctoral fellowship in Black Feminist Thought at Queen鈥檚 University. She was also awarded the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) doctoral fellowship while completing her PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Gender Studies.

She has published a book review of Brittney C. Cooper鈥檚 Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women in Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography and is currently working on the final draft of her article entitled "Opaque Aesthetics of Freedom: Romaine la Proph猫tesse, the Haitian Revolution, and Black Diasporic Possibilities鈥 for the Journal of Canadian Studies鈥 special issue on Black Studies in Canada. She is also working on her book manuscript Arousing Freedoms: Re-Imagining the Haitian Revolution through Sensuous Marronage, where she re-narrates the Haitian Revolution through Black feminist and Black queer epistemologies and methodologies. Disrupting the authority of the colonial archive and of prevalent masculinist framings of insurgency discourses, she explores the ways in which embodiment, labour, sensuousness, spirituality, marronage, resistance and alternative sexualities and genders, re-imagine the edicts of freedom and Black liberation.

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