My Research

What happens to fantasies of the good life when the ordinary becomes a landfill for overwhelming and impending crisis of life-building and expectation whose sheer volume so threatens what it has meant to “have a life” ? - Lauren Berlant, 2011

My scholarship is informed by the belief that sex and gender are material relations integrally connected to labor, production, consumption, and the accumulation and circulation of capital. The establishment and naturalization of binary cisgender and compulsive heterosexuality - alongside racialized violence, slavery, and genocidal dispossession of Indigenous people - was foundational to the development of capitalism and the modern nation-state.

Far from being historical, these forces continue to be key institutions contributing to social and economic conditions of our present moment – a deeply unequal present where ordinary people find it nearly impossible to thrive and to transform their lives for the better, let alone sexual and gender minorities whose life is often drowned in cycles of precarity and crisis. Through my research, I hope to contribute to the collective effort of progressive activists and thinkers, whose relentless pushing is our hope for changes in this overwhelming and increasingly unlivable world.

While interdisciplinary, the thread that runs through all of my research projects is a curiosity and commitment to bring queerness into political and economic questions of the day. Queer theories, queer methods, queer designs – sometimes we forget that they only appear as queer in contradistinction to what has been established as normal and standard.

I welcome opportunities to collaborate with fellow scholars and researchers. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have ideas or projects that you want to discuss (or just to say Hi and have a virtual coffee meetup) !

Research Interests

  • Political economy of gender and sexuality
  • LGBTQ+ Economic discrimination and inequality
  • Feminist, Queer, and Trans Marxism
  • Political economy of platform capitalism and generative AI
  • Interdisciplinary research methods in Economics.

Publication

Working Papers/ Research in progress