Professor and scholar activist whose work dovetails Critical Race Theories, Theories of Enslavism, Decoloniality, Anti-Blackness, Human Rights, Abolition Transformation, Black Intersectional Complex Black Sexualities and Decolonizing Freedom
His work advances a critical epistemological and humanizing perspective which allows us to view the powerful and complex ways in which colonialism, enslavism, race and Anti-Black Racism (ABR) influences the social, economic, political, and educational experiences of Black communities scholars, individuals and groups. His work poses two questions: what does it mean to be human and what does it mean to decolonize freedom?
Research Project: Carceral Intersections of Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation and Trans Experience in Confronting Anti-Black Racism and Structural Violence in the Prisoner Re-entry Industrial Complex. 2022-2025.
Project Site: https://blackgbtqireentry.ca/
All my life I have been edified by human rights, decolonization, global social justice and the elimination of discriminatory laws, polices customs and practices. Like water, I drink Audre Lorde’s dictum that “Your silence will not protect you.” My relationship to and use of Black women’s feminist works is political as a Black cisgender same-loving male who benefits from sexism, patriarchy, and cisgenderism and has a responsibility to eradicate it. As a Black cisgender same-loving male, naming cis male supremacy and unmasking it is imperative locally and globally; however, doing so with all Black and racialized women in mind—cisgender, transgender, and gender-queer—is equally as important to challenge the normative silences surrounding the violence imposed on women and trans lives. The yearning for describing human emancipation, liberation and freedom also stirs within my teaching and research in the areas of anti-racism, decolonization, Black masculinities, queer and trans theory, intersectionality and equity diversity and inclusion, always bringing an intersectional analysis to my work.
