I am currently on sabbatical through June 30, 2025.

I teach across the fields of transnational feminism, gender, race, health, culture and technology.

Previous Courses

WGS351: Gender, Race and Surveillance, Women and Gender Studies, UTM

Through a careful consideration and centering of race, gender and sexuality, this course examines the often-understudied modes of thought and forms of knowledge that surveillance practices and technologies produce. Informed by a range of interdisciplinary scholarship – namely critical transnational feminist and Black feminist texts – it interrogates how surveillance has long enacted racialized, gendered, and biopolitical injustices.

WGS1018: Theories of the Flesh: Transnational Feminist Sensibilities. WGSI. University of Toronto
What does it mean to sense? What epistemological and ideological assumptions do we bring to the project of sensing? Grounding these questions within women of colour and transnational feminist theory, this course explores flesh and skin and as the meditations required for theorizing the sensorial across studies of decolonization, technology, biopolitics and citizenship.

WGS205: Introduction to Feminism and Popular Culture. Women and Gender Studies, UTM This course approaches a range of popular cultural phenomena within critical intersectional feminist and anti-racist frameworks. It interrogates how popular culture productions enact gendered, racialized, imperial, sexist, scientific and capitalist processes and explores how culture has been/can be remixed and contested through art, memes, music, and feminist digital activism. 

WGS470: Feminism and Popular Culture. Women and Gender Studies, UTM
This course examines the intricate relationships among feminism, culture, power and representation. Major themes include: the construction of gendered, sexualized, and racialized subjectivities; ideologies and the media; bio-and communication technologies; neoliberalism and neocolonialism; and counter interpretations, reclamations, and remixes of hegemonic cultural forms.  

WGS418: Feminist Cultural Studies of Biomedicine. Women and Gender Studies, UTM
From vaccines and contraception, to erectile dysfunction drugs and clinical trials, biomedicine and biotechnologies are increasingly powerful and transformative modalities transnationally. Incorporating methods from feminist postcolonial, cultural, media and technoscience studies, this course examines biomedicine by critically attending to its intersections with gender, race, sexuality, colonialism, capitalism and culture.

WGS337: Cultures of Race and Surveillance. Women and Gender Studies, UTM
WGS280: The Politics/Cultures of Surveillance. WGSI. University of Toronto