deepotts@yorku.ca
Dee Markman-Phillpotts (they/them) is a Black, trans, non-binary educator, researcher, and community advocate whose work centers Black trans life, collective care, and liberatory futures. A PhD student with a background in social work and sexuality studies, their research examines how intersecting systems of anti-Black racism, gender-based violence, queer and transphobia, and poverty shape the lived realities of Black and marginalized communities.
Grounded in Black feminist methodologies and abolitionist praxis, Dee鈥檚 scholarship interrogates dominant discourses that render Black trans people hypervisible as sites of harm yet invisible in policy, care infrastructures, and knowledge production. They are particularly interested in how communities cultivate survival strategies, mutual aid networks, and embodied practices of care that challenge carceral logics and reimagine safety beyond the state.
Through teaching, community-engaged research, and public scholarship, Dee works to bridge academic and grassroots spaces, insisting that knowledge is most transformative when it is accountable to the communities from which it emerges.
Keywords: Black Trans Studies; Queer of Colour Critique: Black Feminist Thought; Intersectionality; Anti-Black Racism; Gender-Based Violence; Abolitionist Frameworks; Transformative Justice; Collective Care; Critical Pedagogy; Anti-Oppressive Education