Racialisation, Race Politics and Anti-Black Racism

Speaker: Dr Katucha Bento

Further details regarding the seminar abstract will be provided soon.

Biography: Katucha Bento is a Black Brazilian woman, educator, creative writer, poet, Black queer feminist, antiracist disruptor, decolonial activist, auntie, PhD in sociology and social policy, and a vegan foodie. Currently, she serves as a Senior Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies and Chaplain in Candomblé at the University of Edinburgh (UoE). She is also the co-founder of the Free Afro-Brazilian University (UNAFRO), a third sector collective to offer accessible education to all people as part of reparative justice. Her work is dedicated in discussing Black diasporic experiences and interlocking oppressions involving the lives and routes towards liberation, radical love and how affect circulates, topics she discusses in her upcoming book “Intersectionality in (post)colonial Britain: Weaving affect with Black diaspora” (Palgrave, 2026).