Yasmin Musse

Yasmin Musse is a postgraduate researcher at the School of Education, Durham University, where she has been affiliated since 2021. A dual practitioner as a poet and secondary school English teacher, her academic work centers on leveraging poetry to address epistemic injustice faced by Black schoolgirls through self-definition and knowledge assertion.

• Research Focus: Black feminist epistemology, racial identity in education, poetry as a radical pedagogical tool
• Creative Practice: Published in journals like I am not a silent poet and Creative Writing at Leicester, exploring themes of (un)belonging, diaspora, and decolonial imaginings