I am a feminist writer and researcher based in the Gender Studies Department, University of Turku &  work with methods of communal reading, haptic encounters, sound walks and multisensorial writing. In my research, I ally with feminist new materialisms & feminist theories of embodiment.

In my doctoral research, I strive to think-feel and write-sense towards more liveable interstices for marginalised bodies (human and non-human) and develop a decolonial take on curiosity. I develop my doctoral research within the nurturing research milieu of Localising Feminist New Materialisms, a research project funded by the Academy of Finland (2017‒2021, no. 309007), led by Professor Taru Leppänen, Åbo Academi University. 

Currently, I co-facilitate Aquatic Encounters: Arts and Hydrofeminisms, a research project and communal reading space that dream of aqueous companionships and just multispecies futures. In my related individual research, I ally with bodies of ice as a body of water and as a matter of artistic research to query the dominant Western gender binary and entangled the matter into the turbulence of climate crisis (supported by KONE Foundation, 2020-2022).

In duo with London-based hydrofeminist multimedia artist Hannah Rowan, I develop Slippery Theories of Worldly Bodies, an ongoing multimedia dialogue driven by shared critical curiosities about crystalline bodies as archives, story-tellers, queer and non-binary allies. Both lacerating hard lithic landscapes like soft flesh and briskly melting under a smudge of one’s finger, ice becomes the duo’s first slippery crystalline companion. At this urgent moment, may a strong and vulnerable body of ice yet be able to invigorate hope-ful imaginaries of alternate worldings?   

(forthcoming) Gender and Water. A Hydrofeminist Introduction

Writing as a feminist method of research (taught as Feminist Research Method, Part II)

Feminist Theory 

Gendered Screens in the Nordics and Russia