Dr. Sarah Shroff

Queering The Social Solidarity Economy

The world we want is so different from the world we live in. What if we shifted our attention to a type of economy that works for all of us instead of one we all work for? The answer may lay in a social solidarity economy, which highlights instead of condemns the hard work of the LGBTQI+ and BIPOC community. Your host, Serena Bahadur, and guest professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Dr. Sara Shroff, discuss what this could mean for youth, and the role we all have in making our ideal world come alive.

About

Dr. Shroff is a queer feminist with Indian, Pakistani, and Kenyan roots. As an interdisciplinary and transnational scholar, her studies have taken her all over the world. Her personal and professional life have accumulated beautifully toward her dynamic perspective, which aims to deconstruct our everyday economic structures to fit our identities, instead of the other way around. Dr. Shroff holds a PhD from the New School in New York. She was also the first recipient of the Martha LA McCain postdoctoral fellowship from Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. Her wide scholarship stretches across collateral genealogies of race, coloniality, cultural memory, affect, aesthetics and sexuality in contemporary South Asia and its diasporas. Her intimate focus on the many intersectionalities of gender and their representations invite your warm self-reflection as much as they insist on firm advocacy.