About Me:

I am a PhD Student at Stellenbosch University, working on a thesis entitled - Femininity, Complicity, and Bad Faith: Exploring the tension between authenticity and femininity under patriarchy. I completed my MA at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, graduating Cum Laude, with a thesis titled Fear and the Feminine Lived Experience: A phenomenological investigation of women's fear of sexual violation and its effect on their lived experience. I am currently working as a contract lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, am on the committee for the South African Society for Critical Theory, and I am an editorial assistant for the Journal of Philosophy of Emotion.

Areas of Interest:

My areas of interest include: Phenomenology (particularly Existential-Phenomenology); Feminist Philosophy (particularly Feminist Existentialism and questions concerning Sexuality, Sexual Ethics and Gender Identity); Philosophy of Emotions; Critical Theory; and Political Philosophy (particularly Civil Disobedience and Protest Action).

Publications:

The problem with rebellious hyper-femininity: an analysis of social media’s undermining of hyper-femininity as subversive praxis. Acta Academica 57, no.2 (2025): 99-122. doi:10.38140/aa.v57i2.10201. 

Abolish Legal Marriage: An Anti-Vulnerability Approach to Relationship Regulation.” South African Journal of Philosophy 41, no.4 (2022): 369–85. doi:10.1080/02580136.2023.2206201.

JPE Book Symposia:

• Amandine Catala's The Dynamics of Epistemic Injustice: Situating Epistemic Power and Agency (forthcoming)

• Johnathan Flowers’ Mono no Aware and Gender as Affect in Japanese Aesthetics and American Pragmatism (forthcoming)

• Mariana Alessandri’s Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods (forthcoming)

• Jonathan Ichikawa’s Epistemic Courage (forthcoming)

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