Spotlight on Transnational Research Collaboratory

In episode 17, Lydia Ayame Hiraide is joined by Dr. Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki to discuss her involvement with ‘Queer and trans exiles: Dis/connections of home’.

They explore queer & trans organising in the face of discriminatory policies, and explore how the project takes an interdisciplinary approach of creative participatory action research that centres on documentary filmmaking, where creativity becomes the vocabulary or medium through which research is engaged with. 

Dr Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki is a lecturer in the department of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Intimate Sexual Citizenship at the University of Essex. She has previously taught on gender studies programs at the African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town and Graduate Gender Studies Program, Utrecht University. Her research interests are in critical race, gender, class, sexuality, creative activism, public health as well as decolonial thought and praxis.

In 2024-2025, FCRJ is supporting five transnational research projects. Our transnational research collaboratory fosters connections between academics and social justice movements around FCRJ’s interconnected fields of inquiry, with the goal of co-creating research methodologies and outcomes that cultivate feminist and racially just worlds.

Interviewee: Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki

Interviewer: Lydia Ayame Hiraide

Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice

Sound design, editing: Almaz Anderson