violability | The Harriet Tubman Institute /research/tubman The Harriet Tubman Institute at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:58:49 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Kanishka Sikri /research/tubman/profile/kanishka-sikri/ Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:24:33 +0000 /tubmandev/?post_type=profile&p=2196 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

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