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WGGS invites you to a research talk by Dr. Kavitha Koshy titled, ‘Relational “Space-making”: Toward a South Asian Feminist & Anti-racist/Anti-fascist Praxis” on December 3, 2025, from 2-3.30 pm in Horn Center 106. Dr. Koshy’s presentation focuses on “relational space-making” among South Asian communities to explore how South Asian feminist work develops an anti-racist/anti-fascist praxis.
 

Bio: Kavitha Koshy is a Lecturer in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Global Studies, and the University Honor’s Program at California State University, Long Beach. She has worked as a community organizer in Kashtakari Sanghatana, an indigenous people’s movement for self-determination in Dahanu, India, and with the feminist organization Vimochana, developing community-based approaches to address gendered violence in Bangalore, India. She has a Master’s in Women’s Studies and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas. Dr. Koshy’s research focuses on transnational social processes and phenomena such as gendered migrations, racialization, and casteism that proliferate under conditions of neoliberal global capitalism, engendering paradoxical material and ideological moorings. Through ethnographic research, she identifies emerging subjectivities, alliances, and possibilities for feminist community building and resistance. Her book, The Paradoxes of Indian American Complicity: On the Racial Sidelines (2022), interrogates the paradoxes of racialized immigrant subjectivity and is a call to action; a call for an antiracist, decolonial practice among differentially racialized peoples. She has also published articles on transnational feminisms, Anzaldúan theories, and South Asian media representation in the United States. At ������, she co-directs the newly established interdisciplinary South Asian Studies minor.