Biography

Kumar is an Indo-Guyanese queer scholar, activist, and educator whose work examines women’s loving women relationships, violence, and LGBTQ rights in Guyana. She holds a Ph.D. in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies from York University, Toronto, Canada. Her current research focuses on the coloniality of violence in the lives of queer women. Before arriving at URI, she taught at Hamilton College, the College of New Jersey, and York University. Dr. Kumar is currently working on completing her first monograph, An Ordinary Landscape: Coloniality, Violence, and Sexual Politics in Guyana.