I am an anthropologist and interdisciplinary scholar specialising visual culture, social justice, and social movements, with a focus on race, gender, and sexuality. My work is grounded in social and anthropological frameworks and ethnographic methods in conversation with cultural studies, global art histories, and media perspectives from intersectional queer, critical race, transfeminist, and decolonial approaches.

Focusing on Latin America and the Global South, my research and teaching engage how visual and material cultures, art and media practices, social movements, and the creative industries relate to the production and countering of inequalities as ever-changing relational fields.

I am currently researching whiteness, and also queer feminist, Indigenous, and Afrodiasporic antiracist artivism in digital and printed visual cultures in Argentina, Peru, and Colombia. I have conducted research on gender violence and artivism, as well as public art, visuality, mestizaje, citizenship, and mediatization in Mexico. Previously, my work explored social justice-oriented collaborative art practices between South African, Turkish, and Burundian trans and intersex activists; and migration, cultural heritage, and body-based art (performance, tattoos) in the US and Mexican borderlands.

An integral interest in my work is to engage academic practices with social justice issues. This has led me to co-convene collaborative projects linking scholarly, activist, and artistic work through critical-creative methods in different settings and with diverse collaborators in Latin America, Africa, and Europe. For example, Creaction: Creative Critical Interventions For Social Justice, a forthcoming edited volume under contract with UCL Press, and series of workshops I co-convened with Dr Natasha Tanna (University of York) and Dr hakan Sandal-Wilson (LSE), at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies.

My teaching has also been guided by an interest in promoting social justice awareness through critical thinking. With this focus, I have taught UG students in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Sociology on representation, visual culture, race, gender, and sexuality, and lectured at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH).

I was a Research Associate in the AHRC-funded project Comics and Race in Latin America (Dr James Scorer, PI; Prof. Peter Wade, Co-I). I did a PhD at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries, Loughborough University London, was Associate PhD student at the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, and hold degrees in Mesoamerican Studies from UNAM and in Anthropology from ENAH.

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