Aby Azemia-Gill (she/they)

Areas of Interest

• Black feminist theory
• Black studies
• abolition feminism
• critical disability studies
• feminist political economy
• critical theory
• The Black Radical Tradition

Biography

Aby is a MA student at WGSI with a background in philosophy and African studies. Her research is grounded in abolition feminism and Black feminist theories of the human. Her research considers how the positive project of abolition, which imagines new forms of anti-carceral infrastructure and socio-political organization, is tied to the radical reconfiguration of subjectivity and sociality. One avenue her research has taken is looking at the potentialities of liminal subject positions on the ‘fringes’ of the Man, such as through migration and the condition of statelessness. Aby is also interested in the political economy of carcerality and the proliferation of carceral technologies under neoliberal capitalism.

Program: MA 2025

Education

BA, McGill (Joint Honours African Studies and Philosophy)

Master’s Research Paper

Supervisor: W. Chris Johnson

Honours and Awards