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Dr. Shaunasea Brown has a PhD from the Department of Humanities at York University. Her research collaborates with artists in Toronto to delineate a specifically second-generation understanding of Black women’s arts practices. She is interested in how Black Canadian women artists of Caribbean descent offer blueprints for living relationally and suggest methods for radical community care. Shaunasea also sings and plays piano and guitar. Her current playlist includes Chronixx, Bob Marley, Shenseea, Adria Kain and Mustafa the Poet. She is also the co-founder of the Black Researchers of Southwesterm Ontario network (BRSO).
Future research will explore how sound can be used to rearticulate Black life in ways that refuse anti-black logics perpetuating Black death worldwide.
Shaunasea Brown and Nadine Valcin. “(Searching for) Home.” (2025/2026) Special Issue in Public: Art | Culture | Ideas, edited by Shaunasea Brown and Nadine Valcin, vol. 72.
“‘Beyond and Across the Mediterranean’: Tending to the ‘Lost’ at Sea through Poetry and Collective Care.” Resisting White Supremacy in the African Diaspora: Moving Toward Liberation & Decolonization, special issue edited by Sarita Cannon, Andrea A. Davis, and Crystal Guillory, Interdisciplinary Humanities vol. 38:1 (spring 2021 issue; Published Winter 2023), pp. 122-140.
“‘Don’t Touch My Hair’: Problematizing Representations of Black Women in Canada.” Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol. 12, no. 8, December 2018, pp. 64- 85.
“Take the Kinks out your Mind, not your Hair”: Black Canadian Girl’s Hair Politics & Self-Love.” The Black Girlhood Studies Collection,edited by Aria Halliday. Canadian Scholars’/ Women’s Press, 2019, pp. 209-234.