Bianca Beauchemin

Bianca Beauchemin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University. She holds a PhD in Gender Studies from UCLA and was awarded the prestigious SSHRC doctoral fellowship during her graduate studies. Her research reimagines the Haitian Revolution through Black feminist and queer epistemologies, challenging colonial archives and masculinist narratives of insurgency.

Research interests focus on embodiment, labor, spirituality, and resistance within Black diasporic contexts. Her work explores themes of marronage, alternative sexualities, and liberation frameworks that center marginalized experiences.

Awards include a postdoctoral fellowship in Black Feminist Thought at Queen’s University. She has published in the Journal of Canadian Studies and is completing a manuscript titled Arousing Freedoms: Re-Imagining the Haitian Revolution through Sensuous Marronage.