Charlie Pollard-Durodola holds a JD specializing in Critical Race Studies and was an Articles Editor of the UCLA Law Review. Their prior scholarship, Deadly Desires: The Juridical Birth of Queer Humanism, examined the project of U.S. queer legal subjectivation as a case study in the sacrificial position of blackness under the law. Their current research analyzes philosophical theories of political action; especially critiquing the value of the imagination in enabling the psycho-politics of black futurity. General fields of interest include 19th-20th century and contemporary continental philosophy and critical theory, philosophical anthropology, cultural criticism, critical philosophy of race, history of racial slavery, legal studies, literary theory, psychoanalysis, political theology, gender and queer theory and black nihilism.
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