Upasana Bhattacharjee

Upasana Bhattacharjee is a PhD student at the Faculty of Information and Sexual Diversity Studies. Their dissertation “Men, Media, Mohalla: Spatial politics of racialised platform workers in Toronto” explores how mobility and urban infrastructures become sites and sources for the production of masculinities. Food delivery platforms create spatial patterns and temporal rhythms of congregation (for instance, on sidewalks and intersections, or close to laundromats) for their South Asian workforce. By examining the racial and gendered histories of labour in settler colonial spaces, Upasana explores how cities are (re)imagined and (re)organised through technology. Their research works in conversation with queer of colour critique to examine how racialised masculinities are shaped through non-normative kinship structures, temporalities, and migration.