Peer-reviewed articles
Dolly's Laugh: A Meditation on Recorded Excess (with Ruari Paterson-Achenbach), openworks (2025).
On Flamboyance: Refusal and Worldmaking in Rébecca Chaillon’s Carte noire nommée désir, Modern & Contemporary France (2025).
In Defence of What’s There: Notes on Scavenging as Methodology. Feminist Review 136 (2024).
S’enrager sans se consumer: Afrofeminist flamboyance as refusal in contemporary France, in Rage: Affect and Resistance in French and Francophone Culture and Thought: 1960–2020, (2024).
The Sound of Liminality: Afrotrap, Affective Listening and the (re)invention of Afropean identities. Sociology Compass 17(9). (2023).
Between Post-Racial Ideology and Provincial Universalisms: Critical Race Theory, Decolonial Thought and COVID-19 in Britain (with Ali Meghji). Sociology, 56(1). (2021)
Other Writing
(Article) Hold Up: The Queer Revolutionary Children of 'Zero for Conduct'
(Book Review) In Defense of Barbarism, Red Pepper (Spring 2025).
(Book Review) Radical Intimacies, The Sociological Review Magazine.
Talks + Events
I have presented my work at a number of conferences and invited talks in the UK and abroad. I have also collaboratively organised conferences, workshops, and event series on topics ranging from the possibilies of writing as a reparative method to the work of experimental musician Arthur Russell.
Selected Invited Talks
Thinking scavenging as a queer and feminist methodology. Center for Gender Studies, University of Cambridge (February 2025)
In Defence of What’s There: Notes on Scavenging. Research Training Centre, University of Edinburgh (December 2024).
Madness Café: Worldmaking and staging flamboyance in Rébecca Chaillon’s Carte Noire Nommée Désir. Modern French Research Seminars, University of Cambridge (February 2024).
Expanding the Lens: A sociological engagement with fiction. Sociological Review’s Liminal Texts: Writing society between literature and sociology, University of Cambridge (October 2023).
In Conversation with Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Cambridge Contemporary Writers' Readings (June 2023).
Breaking the Republic in Half? Black Worldmaking and lines of flight in contemporary France, Cambridge Modern French Research Seminars (May 2021).
In Conversation with Amandine Gay, Cambridge Modern French Research Seminars (October 2021).
Selected Conference Papers
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.
On Flamboyance: Afrofeminism, Refusal, and Worldmaking in Contemporary France. Global Black French Studies Inaugural Conference (October 2024).
Comme nous existons: Subjectivity, Intimacy and Community in French Black Women’s Self-Narratives. Society for French Studies Annual Conference (July 2024).
The sound of liminality: affective listening, afro trap and postcolonial identities in France. British Journal of Sociology Inaugural Conference (April 2024).
In Defence of What’s There: Resisting Extractivism with the Scavenger Methodology, British Sociological Association Annual Conference (April 2023).
The Sound of liminality: Afro trap, Afropean soundscapes, and worldmaking in France, British Sociological Association Annual Conference (April 2021).
Selected Events
Flowers Bloom out of Sight: A Celebration of Arthur Russell, with Ruari Paterson-Achenbach. (2024).
Writing as Repair/Repair as Writing, with Yasmine Kherfi, Sarai Kirshner, and rémy-paulin twahirwa. (2023).
Trans*national Black Feminisms Series, with Martin Crowley and Jasmine Cooper. (2022).
Moving (across) Boundaries, with Ruari Paterson-Achenbach and Orsolya Petocz (2022).
Teaching
Currently, I contribute to different modules on the BA Social Sciences and the MA Education in Arts and Cultural Settings at King's College London.
In the past I have taught (in English and in French) the sociology of race and racism, the sociology of gender and sexuality, and contemporary French culture to undergraduate and graduate students. I have designed classes on black feminisms, the ethics of documentary filmmaking, the cultural politics of race & nation in Britain and the aesthetics of anti-racism for the University of Cambridge as an affiliate lecturer, and as an invited lecturer at the University of Warwick and the University of Lausanne.
I have also given workshops on creative methodologies and method-making to graduate students, and delivered outreach lectures to secondary school and sixth form students.
Artistic Projects
Commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (ICA) for their echoes, feelings and meanings project (2021).
Commissioned by the British Music Collection as part of the LGBTQ+ Composer Call (2021).