How movements confronting gender-based violence sustain themselves — and what care has to do with survival.
How do feminist movements addressing sexual and gender-based violence sustain themselves over time? Drawing on feminist interpretive methods and fieldwork with activists across India, I show how the visibility of certain cases — and the legal reforms they drive — can obscure the slower, quieter labor that keeps movements alive. I develop a hierarchy of victimhood to explain whose suffering is recognized, and I center the care practices through which activists endure.
Co-edited with Kimberly Theidon and Dyan Mazurana, the volume brings together scholars and practitioners on children born of conflict-related sexual violence. My chapter examines the Rwanda case, tracing how frameworks of recognition shape who receives justice and repair.
Full project page →Co-directed with Kimberly Theidon. A cross-disciplinary initiative connecting environmental humanities and intersectionality — networks, programming, and grant-funded collaboration.
Full project page →Sensitive research demands methods equal to its stakes. For me, methodological care is part of the argument — not just the apparatus that supports it. These commitments shape how I design studies, work with communities, and adapt when conditions change.