HELLO
I am a writer, artist, and willful feminist. I received my bachelor degree in political science and philosophy from Loyola University Chicago where I explored the disciplinary worlds of feminist philosophy, critical race theory, queer theory, literature, aesthetics, and post capitalist theories. I am currently a philosophy PhD student at Fordham University where my research interests have expanded to French philosophy, critical theory, decolonial theory, and the philosophy of resistance.
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During my undergraduate studies, I elaborated an honors thesis titled “The Shadow Feminist and Madwoman in the Negative Aesthetic: The Spirit of Queer Pessimism for a Radical Hope in the Rupture of Violent Resistance in the Feminist Imaginary."
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I am currently teaching an undergraduate Philosophy of Human Nature course at Fordham University. ​​​
PERSONAL STATEMENT
The etymology of the archive, as Jacques Derrida tells us, comes from the ancient Greek word arkheion, meaning the “house of the ruler.” A critical examination of the narratives and histories, the archival violence through silence, that emerge and circulate from the house of the ruler in feminist philosophy, critical race theory, and queer theory has become a formidable force of explanatory and causal power in the discipline. Literary writer Carmen Maria Machado metaphorizes this Foucauldian conception of power from the standpoint of the oppressed speaking into the silence as a ghost haunting the ruler’s house. Sitting in the mythological space of the complete archive—the impossibility of its existence beyond a haunting paired with the Sisyphean commitment towards an archival wholeness—has been foundational to much of my philosophical and artistic work.
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Inspired by the wild and vibrant chatter of my rebel sisters haunting the heteronormative "archive", I too will aim to breathe life into the shadows of silence. Venturing into the shadow territory of untold histories, forgotten memories, and abandoned stories, I find a feminist world building project that wields the bewitching power of anger, spins the liberating language of violence and fear, and banishes the expectations of joy in a futurity that leaves the ruler's house still standing. Exploring the realm of the imaginary, particularly that of literature and aesthetics, I seek out the materialization of a post-feminist world struggling to fortify against the totalizing force of patriarchy. The specter of this world, I find, often looks like the incarnation of madness--beautiful, wild, untamed, and dangerous.
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