Mikki Stelder (they/them) is an antidisciplinary researcher and writer whose work traverses oceans, anticolonial struggles, and queer transfeminist thought and praxis. Their work examines the relationship between Dutch maritime imagination and imperialist expansion, and how water holds potential for crafting radical and liberatory futures.
It is situated at the intersection of critical ocean studies, Black and Indigenous studies, and anticolonial critique. They are an Assistant Professor of Global Arts and Politics at the University of Amsterdam.
Mikki’s work has appeared in Postcolonial Studies, Angelaki: journal for the theoretical humanities, Settler Colonial Studies, Radical History Review, The Journal of Palestine Studies, Feral Feminisms, Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies and the edited collections Global Trajectories of Queerness: Same Sex Politics in the Global South (eds. Ashley Tellis and Sruti Bala, co-authored with Haneen Maikey), The Future of the Dutch Colonial Past (Amsterdam University Press), and Law and Humanities in a Pandemic (London University Press). They have also written op-eds for Mondoweiss (co-author Ramzy Kumsieh), OneWorld.org, Trouw, and Pinkwatching Israel.
They have (co-)curated and participated in numerous public programs and exhibitions including Mo
ving Together: Art, Education and Activism - a Week with Angela Y. Davis (curator), Oceans as Archives (curator), Sonic Acts Biennal (speaker), Unimaginable: Clarion Calls from the Rising Sea (artist), Rietveld Studium Generale (speaker), Surinamensium Part I (artist), Queeristan: Autonomous Queer Festival for Arts and Politics (organizer).
Photograph by Zola Zakiya