Gender-based Violence | The Harriet Tubman Institute

Dee Marksman-Phillpotts

rebsl — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:35:41 +0000

Dee Markman-Phillpotts (they/them) is a Black, trans, non-binary educator, researcher, and community advocate whose work centers Black trans life, collective care, and liberatory futures. A PhD student with a background in social work and sexuality studies, their research examines how intersecting systems of anti-Black racism, gender-based violence, queer and transphobia, and poverty shape the lived realities of Black and marginalized communities.
Grounded in Black feminist methodologies and abolitionist praxis, Dee’s scholarship interrogates dominant discourses that render Black trans people hypervisible as sites of harm yet invisible in policy, care infrastructures, and knowledge production. They are particularly interested in how communities cultivate survival strategies, mutual aid networks, and embodied practices of care that challenge carceral logics and reimagine safety beyond the state.
Through teaching, community-engaged research, and public scholarship, Dee works to bridge academic and grassroots spaces, insisting that knowledge is most transformative when it is accountable to the communities from which it emerges.

Keywords: Black Trans Studies; Queer of Colour Critique: Black Feminist Thought; Intersectionality; Anti-Black Racism; Gender-Based Violence; Abolitionist Frameworks; Transformative Justice; Collective Care; Critical Pedagogy; Anti-Oppressive Education

Perpetua Obi

rebsl — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:40:46 +0000

I am Physiotherapist, Gerontologist and Sexual Health Counselor. I am currently doing my master in Kinesiology and Health science. My research interest is on older adults, sexual health and geriatric Physiotherapy.

Keywords: older adults, falls prevention, mobility, gender-based violence, adolescent sexual health, Menstruation hygiene and older adult sexual health.

Kaosisochukwu Ejiaso

rebsl — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 20:31:52 +0000

Kaosisochukwu Ejiaso is a Ph.D. student at �첥��Ƶ, Toronto, Canada in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies. She holds an MA in Languages, Literatures and Linguistics from �첥��Ƶ and a BA in English Language and Literature from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra, Nigeria. She is interested in linguistics of suicide notes, sexual assault, rape, and gender-based violence in Nigeria, particularly, and generally in Africa.

Keywords: Language, Gender, Gender-based Violence, law, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, African Studies, Afro feminism, black Feminism, afro-diasporic feminism, Women's studies, Girl's studies