Dissertation Project:

My research project, situated at the intersections of queer of color critique, critical migration studies, decolonial political ecologies, and public anthropology, explores how racialized and (post)migrant communities in Berlin navigate and contest the spatial, affective, and infrastructural manifestations of coloniality. Attuned to the entanglements of space, memory, embodiment, and movement, the project asks how subjects rendered disposable under regimes of racial capitalism generate alternative modes of belonging, solidarity, and resistance. Centering everyday practices of survival and world-making, it draws on collaborative, sensory, and place-based approaches that blur conventional boundaries of knowledge production, contributing to broader struggles for epistemic justice and spatial reimagination.

Biography

I am a (post)migrant researcher and educator working across critical migration studies, decolonial theory, and urban political ecology. Currently based at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, my teaching and research center on queer decolonial world-making, racialized urban space, and the politics of knowledge production. I hold an MSc from SOAS, University of London, where my dissertation, Brown Water: An Exercise in Doing and Thinking Otherwise, examined how racialized and diasporic communities mobilize fluidity, embodiment, and spatial belonging to unsettle colonial hierarchies. My practice moves fluidly between academia, activism, and artistic interventions. It is committed to collaborative, insurgent, and situated forms of knowledge production that challenge normative boundaries and imagine alternative futures.

Fields of interest

• Critical Migration and Border Regimes
• Queer of Color Critique
• Urban Political Ecology and Infrastructure
• Postcolonial Europe and (Post)migrant Belonging
• Sensory and Visual Ethnography
• Anti-Racist and Decolonial Pedagogies
• Diasporic World-Making Practices

Teaching

Porous, Tidal, Contingent: Queer and Decolonial Dialogues with Water
M.A. Gender Studies - Humboldt University zu Berlin - Summer Term 2025