Dr Sophie Marie Niang is a writer, teacher and researcher based in London. She is currently a Lecturer in Cultural Policy at King's College London. Her academic work, sitting at the intersection of black feminist thought, cultural studies, queer of colour critique and black studies, explores practices of worldmaking and refusal across geographic and temporal boundaries.
Lately
Writing
Hold Up: The Queer Revolutionary Children of 'Zero for Conduct', Mid Theory
Dolly's Laugh: A Meditation on Recorded Excess (with Ruari Paterson-Achenbach), openworks.
On Flamboyance: Refusal and Worldmaking in Rébecca Chaillon’s Carte noire nommée désir, Modern & Contemporary France
Talks
Refusal, solidarity, and children’s anarchist resistance in Zero for Conduct, LCCT: 20-21 June 2025
Iboga in Fontainebleau: Postcolonial Ecologies of the Hexagon in Seynabou Sonko's Djinns, SFPS Postgraduate Study Day: 23 May 2025.