Graduate Associate
sikri[at]yorku.ca
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies, York University
Research Keywords:
Violability
Research Diaspora(s):
South Asian Diaspora
Kanishka Sikri is a writer and scholar thinking about violability: the practice that marks certain lives, bodies, and lands to the possibility of violence. They are currently a doctoral 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 bare, grieve and mourn its many insidious faces without replicating the notion that certain lives are violable and capable of being violated.