Dr. Akae Wright
Dr. Akae Wright
Assistant Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) and American Studies
Core Faculty
School: Columbian College of Arts and Sciences
Contact:
Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
801 22nd Street, NW, Phillips Hall #344
Washington DC 20052
Dr. Akae Wright (they/them) is a Jamaican first-generation Black feminist healer-scholar. Their primary research investigates how Black individuals communally and intimately live, resist, and care amid carceral forces. Situated in Black feminist thought, queer and trans studies, and carceral studies, their research explores communal healing justice approaches to carceral abolition, centering the care, spiritual, and life flourishing practices of Black folks.
Black Feminist Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, Northeastern University, 2022-2024
Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies' Award for Pedagogy and Teaching Excellence in Feminist Studies, 2021
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2021-2022
The Leadership in Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity (LEID) Fellowship, 2020-2021
Black Feminism
Abolition
Social Movements
Healing Justice
Digital Humanities
Embodiment and Affect
WGSS 3435. Queer Politics
WGSS 3890W. Black Women in the Twenty-First Century
WGSS 3170/6270. Topics in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Feminist Abolition Studies
WGSS 6221. Research Issues in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
“We Heal To Rebuild: Black Queer and Trans Healing Justice and Resistance in Minneapolis” in American Studies
“Embodied Digital Ecologies: A Healing Justice Analysis of How to Survive the End of the World” in QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking
“Resurrection at the Fractured Locus: Incarcerated Black Trans Embodiment and Decolonial Abolition Praxis” in Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics
“The Carceral Apocalypse: Intimacy, Community, and Embodied Abolition in Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown's How to Survive the End of the World” in The Review of Communication
Bates College,Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, B.A.
University of Minnesota, M.A. & Ph.D. in Feminist Studies
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