Episode 33: 10 Questions with Dr. SM Rodriguez

10 Questions with Feminist AcademicsIn this series we engage 10 feminist academics around 10 questions within and across their disciplines that are important for all to consider at this historical juncture. BioS.M. Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of Gender, Rights and Human Rights in the Department of Gender Studies at LSE. They are the author of The Economies of Queer Inclusion: Transnational LGBTI Organizing in Uganda (2019), which used ethnography, interviews, and policy analysis to challenge the scholarly imagination of European and American human rights intervention in LGBTI politics in Africa as inherently helpful. They are the founder of Black Queer Movements, a knowledge exchange hub for activists and scholar-activists across the African continent and Diaspora, and of The Black Professors Pipeline, which addresses underrepresentation of faculty of African descent in the U.K. higher education.Dr Rodriguez’s research joins anti-carceral, Black, and queer feminist approaches to interrogate sexual politics, especially as related to criminal law and “correctional” practices. As such, their work explores various practices and philosophies of justice and transformative changemaking. CreditsProduced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial JusticeHost: Vasiliki VitaSound design, editing, production: Ellan A. Lincoln HydeMusic: Grateful by audiolibraryinfinite from Pixabay