Affiliated Faculty

- Title
- PhD Student
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- Feminist Studies Department
- Affiliations Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Phone 831-459-1478
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, 416
- Mail Stop Feminist Studies
Research Interests
medicine, healing systems, the senses
Biography, Education and Training
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Selected Presentations
“Feminism and Prison Abolition: Then, Now, and Soon Come” Guest lecture for Racial and Gender Formations in the U.S. 2019, Santa Cruz, CA
“Abolition as Relation: Indigenous Sciences, Plant Knowledges, and the Politics of Listening in Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass” Guest lecture for Introduction to Feminist Studies 2018, Santa Cruz, CA
“Toward an Abolitionist Politics of Noise: Kalief and Venida Browder, Carceral Architectures, and the Sounds of Heartbreak” Paper presentation at Unintelligible: Noise Against Capture Conference 2018, Santa Cruz, CA
“No Reproductive Justice in a World with Prisons: Toward Abolition” Paper presentation and visioning session at Decolonizing Birth Conference 2016, Brooklyn, NY
“Plant Based Living as the Praxis of Freedom: Black Radical Thought as Food and Animal Justice Framework” Panel organizer and presenter at The Praxis of Black Lives Matter and Food Justice Movements Summit 2015, Milwaukee, WI