Luma started their LSE-funded PhD at the Department of Gender Studies in 2020. Their research examines the political subjectivation processes, meaning-making practices, and epistemic registers of disidencias sexo-genéricas (sex-gender dissidences) in Quito, Ecuador, and Abya Yala/Latinoamérica more broadly. Luma’s project also explores themes relating to: (dis)identification, Whiteness/mestizaje, aesthetics, memory, affect, political transversality, and marika/cuir/dissident activisms in Latin America. 

Luma holds a MA in Social Policy from Sciences Po Paris and a BA from Wesleyan University. They are a member of the ‘Engenderings’ editorial collective. Their research interests include perreo, counter-normative sexualities, transnational migration studies, elite studies, decolonizing academia, and anti-productivism.

Supervisory Team: Dr Leticia Sabsay and Dr Sumi Madhok