Ongoing lines of inquiry at the intersection of queer studies, South African visual culture, and the politics of state violence.
Doctoral project on the historical and continuing entanglement of the South African Police Service with queer subjects, tracing how apartheid-era practices of surveillance, humiliation, and violence persist under democracy. Combines archival work in the GALA Queer Archive, close reading of contemporary art, and auto-ethnographic reflection.
A monograph-length study of Ruga's avatars — Beiruth, the Future White Women of Azania, Miss Congo — as radical aesthetic interventions into South African public space and the visual grammar of the rainbow nation.
Comparative fieldwork on how queer publics make and unmake space in two South African cities, from cruising grounds and nightlife to the built environment of former apartheid-era policing sites.
Planned collaborative project with GALA Queer Archive on the use of photography by the apartheid-era South African Police Force as an instrument of control, and its counter-archival reappropriation by queer artists and activists today.