She is a sociologist whose work centers on the ways in which the African Diaspora, in the Americas, uses arts-based social movements as a tool for social change. She is particularly interested in how these movements challenge racism, coloniality and heteronormativity as mutually reinforcing axes of oppression. She has published in Latin American Perspectives, Black Women Gender and Family, SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, and in the 2012 anthology Black Genders and Sexualities.