Debbie Ebanks Schlums (she/they) is an artist-researcher and Vanier Scholar pursuing a doctorate in Cinema and Media Studies at York University. Her research explores methodologies of Caribbean diasporic archiving with a focus on the Jamaican Diaspora through storytelling and media art installation. Keywords: Caribbean archives, media art, Black aesthetics
Kanishka Sikri is a writer and theorist thinking about violability: the practice that marks certain lives, bodies, and lands to the possibility of violence. They are currently a PhD candidate at York University speculating on the ways violence becomes synonymous with and inhabits the flesh. Kanishka asks how we may speak about violence, lay it […]
Emmanuel Graham is a PhD candidate at York University Department of Politics in Toronto, Ontario Canada. In terms of research interest, Graham’s focus is on the political economy of the extractive sector, energy politics and climate change in Ghana and West Africa. He is also, interested in the social and political thoughts of Kwame Nkrumah […]
Bria Hamilton is a Master’s of Environmental Studies candidate in the urban planning stream. Her research surrounds using Geographic Information Systems technology to describe the current geographies Black people move through as well as to provide tools for visualizing Black futurisms and imaginings of equitable and just spatialities. This work is underpinned by Black Feminist […]
Sharon Henry is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at York University.Sharon is a long-standing graduate member of Race Inclusion and Supportive Environments (RISE); an executive graduate caucus member of the Harriet Tubman Institute (HTI); a graduate representative at Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC); a graduate representative on […]
Immaculée Uwanyiligira is a second year PhD student in Social Work. She holds a BA in Languages and Literature (Makerere University), an MSc in Information and Telecommunication Systems (John Hopkins), and an MA in International Affairs (Columbia). She worked for the UN World Food Program as Head of the Information Technology and Telecommunication Unit (1998–99); […]
Beauty is an interdisciplinary scholar in sociolinguistics and health policy and equity passionate about mobility and social justice. Her sociolinguistic work has allowed her conduct research on language, migration, and social change. Her work focuses on Nigerian immigrants in Cape Town, drawing on their everyday lived experiences as immigrants to examine their social positioning as […]
I am a Master’s student in Social Anthropology, focusing my thesis on the activism of Malian undocumented migrants in the Paris region. My work hopes to shed light on migrants’ experiences of state violence and practices of resistance. In particular, I will be studying the political discourses that emerge from migrant collectives, which tie contemporary […]
Matt Robertshaw is a PhD candidate in History at York University. He focuses on Haiti, the Caribbean and French colonialism in Africa. He is also a video essayist via Sleeper Hit History on YouTube.
Jellisa Ricketts is currently a master’s student in the Humanities with a focus on abolition, spatial theory and the arts.