Jordan Ramnarine

Jordan Ramnarine (he/him) is a queer agender Indo-Caribbean-Canadian scholar, activist, and public health practitioner. Currently pursuing a PhD in Sociocultural and Medical Anthropology with a Collaborative Specialization in Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto, Jordan’s current research interests flow through the intersections of queer environmental humanities, Caribbean sexualities, and decolonial aesthetics. Drawing from Indigenous feminisms, Afrofuturism, and diasporic imaginaries, his doctoral project explores ecologies of human-oceanic relationalities in the Caribbean as living archives of colonial rupture. Through a critical-creative practice of queer ethnography, he aims to trace relational models of care, repair, healing, and resistance shaped by the afterlives of indentureship, slavery, and displacement. With this, he endeavors to ask: what becomes possible when queer/trans planetary futures are (re)imagined through the speculative, the celestial, and the collective?