About
I’m a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, at the University of Brighton, and an Associate Lecturer at the Open University. Since completing my PhD in 2022, I have been preparing my thesis, “Dispossessive Citizenship: Property and Personhood in Speculative Narrative,” for publication as a monograph, and developing ideas for a postdoc project.
I work across literary studies, philosophy, and decolonial thought to study the specularity of the narratives that construct the politics of subjectivity and rights. My research investigates the constitutive metaphors and literary origins of discourses that found their authority on their nonfictional status, arguing that such strategies, in presupposing the epistemologies of universal, purified, and originary truth that are axiomatic for liberal humanism, reinscribe the conceptual architecture of European coloniality. Education
PhD Humanities, University of Brighton, 2022
MA Philosophy, University of Sussex, 2005
BA (Joint Hons) English Literature and Philosophy, Cardiff University, 2003 Mastodon Feed
The UK government's plan to send asylum seekers to #Rwanda became law this morning. In this blog post for Engenderings, I argue that the policy is not merely a cruel and cynical (not to mention expensive) deterrent, it is also colonial and cisnormative. And the Rwanda plan is comparable to another racialised and gendered policy: the detention of migrants aboard a huge barge. #RwandaDeportation #BibbyStockholm #coloniality #cisnormativity #migration #Engenderings #LSE https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2024/04/23/colonial-cisnationalism-notes-on-empire-and-gender-in-the-uks-migration-policy/ (2024-04-23 ↗)
@philosophy @decolonial Deadline for abstracts is February 1st, so get your skates on! Organised by Dr Hasret Cetinkaya, Dr SM Rodriguez, Dr Sharmila Parmanand and Nour Almazidi (doctoral researcher). (2023-01-10 ↗)
@philosophy @decolonial … • Rights and colonial occupation. • Studying rights as ethics and aesthetics. • The politics of (re)-presentation and rights. • Strategies for non-extractivist knowledge production on rights. • Rights and the politics of abolition. • Rights, languages, and heritages. • How to study transnational coalitions of rights. (2023-01-09 ↗)
@philosophy @decolonial Potential themes/topics: • Alternative concepts of rights, decolonial world-making and global epistemic justice. • Methodologies for examining human and non-human rights making/ claiming, including ecological rights struggles. • Feminist reworking of rights. • Alternative approaches to LGBTQI+ rights. • Rights beyond the nation-state and citizenship. • Statelessness and rights struggles. • How to move beyond methodological nationalism… (2023-01-09 ↗)
@philosophy @decolonial The description for this workshop is too long to post here, so here's a link: https://www.lse.ac.uk/gender/assets/documents/research/Alternative-Politics-of-Human-Rights/CfP-Methodologies-for-Imagining-an-Alternative-Politics-of-Human-Rights.pdf (2023-01-09 ↗)
Publications
Journal Articles
Relationalities of Refusal: Neuroqueer Disidentification and Post- Normative Approaches to Narrative Recognition
South Atlantic Review, 87(3) (September 2022).
Every Day We Must Get Up and Relearn the World: An Interview with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Interfere, 2 (December 2021). Co-authors: Hannah Voegele, Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.
Immunising Birthsex: Ontology’s Place in the Pandemic
Derrida Today, 13(2) (November 2020).
Online Articles and Opinion Pieces
Recognition Against Liberation: On the UK’s Unreformed Gender Recognition Act
Interfere Blog (October 2020). Available
here.
Covid Disobedience and the Autoimmune Self-Destruction of Liberal Individualism
Discover Society (April 2020). Available
here.
