My research examines how racialized folx use fashion, self-styling, and performance to narrate lived experiences, resist imposed narratives, and reimagine futures. Through a scholarly and creative lens, I explore how clothing and visual culture reflect and reshape our social, political, and historical conditions.
As a textile and fashion facilitator, I use sewing techniques and clothing stories as tools to foster community connection, cultural exchange, and personal storytelling.
Available for: panel discussions, guest lectures, facilitation, curriculum development, and consultation.
Research Focus: BLACK LOOKS: Hypervisuality and the Racialized Body
Black Looks critically examines the representation of dressing and movement on racialized bodies in photography and film. This research introduces a framework of hypervisuality that notes clothing as both sign and signifier inciting critical discourses concerning race and gender within visual culture and the way it intersects with history, and demonstrates performative acts in dressing, socially shared and historically constituted. It also view clothing’s capabilities to erase or “masquerade” the body and articulate new ways of understanding the complex connections between images, cultures and individuals they touch.
@Hypervisuality , a digital archive inspired by Black Looks, documents how fashion, performance, and visual culture is used as a tool for storytelling, resistance, and cultural memory. Grounded in academic inquiry and lived experience, this platform extends research beyond the page into a curated, visual dialogue.
Selected themes explored on this page: Dressing as resistance, Fashion archives and memory, Everyday performance and presence, and The politics of visibility and hyper-visibility