Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies
Graduate Research Assistant
sikri@yorku.ca
Kanishka Sikri is a PhD candidate whose dissertation, SomeThing, It, Violability, theorizes violability as an ontological operating system that marks being and becoming toward the possibility of violation. Her research asks not only how violence appears, but how the conditions that make violence possible are slowly arranged through language, discourse, and social order. Working across feminist theory, postcolonial thought, Black studies, and cultural criticism, she examines how violability is produced through and across racialized and sexualized being.
Keywords: Violability; epistemic violence