Wesley Crichlow
PhD

Background

Dr. Wesley Crichlow (Ph.D.), professor and scholar activist work dovetails at the intersection Critical Race Theory Intersectionality (CRTI) Decoloniality, Enslavism, Anti-Black Racism and Black Same Gender Loving, Queer, Trans, Non-Binary Embodiment and Scholarship. Advances a critical epistemological perspective connecting  these theories as his signature praxis and framing for his research, teaching, and service, advancing a humanizing pedagogy.  At  the center of my work, I ask what it means to be free, what it means to be human and how humanness can be recognized (2015, pp. 106-123)?. My work not only asks what it means to be free and to be human, but also aims to alleviate LGBTQI+ hegemonic racisms, misogynoir, the logics of anti-Black racisms and racial colonial violence, heterocisnormativity, transmisogyny, structural, and systemic inequalities, as a humanizing epistemology. His first published SSHRC funded book: Buller Men & Batty Bwoys: Hidden Men in Toronto & Halifax Black Communities (2004), focused on interviews with Black Gay Men in Toronto’s Caribbean diasporic community and Halifax Black Community.  This monograph was the first Black, scholarly, queer text to offer readers a critical insight into the complex lives of Black, Gay and Bisexual men in Canada.  It also offered a critical analysis of racialized heterosexism within Black diasporic communities. This work was also an attempt to restore indigenous sexual terms as a response to politicized language of gay, lesbian, and queer politics.

Current SSHRC Funded Research (2022-2025): His current research project advances these intersections by examining the “Carceral Intersections of Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation and Trans Experience in Confronting Anti-Black Racism, Anti-Black GBTQI+ Racism and Structural Violence in the Prisoner Re-entry Industrial Complex.
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Theoretical Frameworks: The following theoretical frameworks guide my work (a) Critical Race Theory (Delgado, 1993); (b) Decolonial Critiques of Coloniality, Anti-Black Racism Theories (ABRT) and Enslavism; (Fanon,1952); (c) Intersectionality (Crenshaw 1990); (d) Decolonizing sexuality and gender and (e) Decolonizing freedom humanness and humanity (Wynter & Hartman)