Ryan Persadie
Ryan Persadie is a performance artist, educator, and PhD candidate in Women and Gender Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. He holds a MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Toronto. His doctoral research investigates queer Indo-Caribbean diasporas, post-indentureship feminisms, Afro-Asian intimacies, and how performance and specifically Anglophone Caribbean popular music, dance, vocality, and embodiment offer salient archives of erotic place- and self-making for descendants of Indian indenture to transgress, disrupt, and re-imagine coolie geographies beyond hetero-/homonormative notions of sexual citizenship, belonging, home, desire, pleasure, community, and “Pride”.
