Against Barriers and Binaries: An Interview With Fatima El-Tayeb

Fatima El-Tayeb is an author and Professor of Ethnicity, Race
& Migration, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at
Yale University in Connecticut, USA. Her work deconstructs
structural racism and centers strategies of resistance among
racialized communities, especially those that politicize culture
through an intersectional, queer practice. Her current research
projects explore the intersecting legacies of colonialism,
fascism, and socialism in Europe and the potential of alliances
of (queer) people of color in decolonizing Europe. She is active
in black feminist, migrant, and queer of color organizations in
Europe and the US.


In this episode, El-Tayeb speaks about the construction of
Otherness and discrimination of migrants, refugees, and
racialized people in Europe, the (im)possibility of a
post-migrant society and university, and other questions relating
to migration within the academic context and beyond.