About the Author

Professor Rinaldo Walcott is the Director of the Women & Gender Studies Institute. Rinaldo's research is founded in a philosophical orientation that is concerned with the ways in which coloniality shapes human relations across social and cultural time and focuses on Black cultural politics; histories of colonialism in the Americas, multiculturalism, citizenship, and diaspora; gender and sexuality; and social, cultural and public policy. Idil Abdillahi is an Assistant Professor at Ryerson University's School of Social Work. Her work focuses on anti-black racism, black feminist thought, and anti-racism praxis.