Dr. Fatima El Tayeb

Biography

Fatima El-Tayeb is a professor specializing in Ethnicity, Race & Migration as well as Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. With an academic background that includes a Master's in American Studies and Modern European History and a PhD in History from the University of Hamburg, Germany, her research areas encompass Black Europe, comparative diaspora studies, queer color critique, and critical Muslim studies. She extensively delves into decolonial theory, transnational feminisms, and visual culture studies, focusing on the interactions of race, gender, sexuality, and religion within a national context. El-Tayeb is the author of several significant publications, including 'Schwarze Deutsche', 'European Queering Ethnicity', and 'Undeutsch'. Her academic contributions seek to deconstruct structural racism in what is referred to as 'colorblind' Europe while emphasizing strategies for resistance among racialized communities by politicizing culture through intersectional queer practices. In addition to her scholarly work, she co-wrote the Black lesbian screwball comedy 'Alles wird gut/Everything Fine' and is active in various Black feminist, migrant, and queer color organizations in Europe.

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