Beaudelaine Pierre

B.A. Faculté des Science Humaines | L’Université d’État d’Haiti; 

MPA Humphrey School of Public Affairs | University of Minnesota- Twin Cities

Ph.D. Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies | University of Minnesota of Minnesota-Twin Cities

My work engages Black feminisms, decolonial studies, and critical-creative methodologies to research counter-normative infrastructures of collective life in human rights struggles and immigrant and refugee justice. Through the creole, the queer, and the diasporic, I investigate how the less-than-human linked to the movements of bodies, information, and capital, reconfigures the politics of gender, care, and accountability in various forms of sociality. Particularly, my current book project sits with the imaginaire of Haitians living under Temporary Protected Status (or TPS) who reconstitute familiar and unfamiliar modes of living as they withstand violence and loss both in Haiti and the United States. Centrally focusing on how TPS holders construct our presents, this project conjures a theoretical critique of citizenship in masculinized democratic discourse through a Black feminist vision of what it means to be human.