Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi
Snr Graduate Teaching Assistant/PhD Candidate
Email: adebayo.quadry-adekanbi@warwick.ac.uk
Profile
Adebayo Quadry-Adekanbi (he/him) is a Sociology (Women and Gender) PhD candidate at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on the intersectional politics of queer activism and feminism in Nigeria, along with principles of postcolonial and Black queer feminist theory. He explores how queer people are mobilising despite being criminalised by the state. Employing ethnography and semi-structured interviews, the research considers legal, social, political, and philosophical aspects of queer existence and identity, touching on themes of colonialism, class, gender, and power.
Teaching
SO245 - Modern Social Theory (2023/2024)
Research Interests
- Intersectionality in Queer Activism
- Postcolonial Queer Studies
- Black Queer Feminist Theory
- Criminalisation and Queerness
- Ethnography in Queer Studies
- Gender and Queer Mobilisation
- Precolonial African Spirituality and Cosmology
- The Body as an Archive of Embedded Cultural Memory