Response to J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, “A Structure, Not an Event: Settler Colonialism and Enduring Indigeneity,” published in Lateral 5.1. Jafri articulates how a critical race feminist/queer lens makes possible thinking that sees the repetitions of racialized, gendered, sexualized colonial violence.
Articles by Beenash Jafri
Beenash Jafri is a Visiting Assistant Professor of American Studies & Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at UC Davis. Her research engages critical race, Indigenous, settler colonial and gender and sexuality studies through film and cultural criticism. She has published essays in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies, and Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, and is currently preparing a manuscript entitled Diasporic Cowboys: Cinematic Entanglements of Race and Settler Colonialism.