Julia Sauma (she/her) is a Brazilian-Londoner and Hard of Hearing writer and researcher who investigates how collective life is maintained and lost within and against extractive relations, structures and institutions in Brazil and the UK, through collaborations with artists, other researchers and local communities.
She works with Amazonian Quilombo (Maroon) activists and families in Brazil to create interventions in and reflections about the different kinds of work - ecological, political, kin-centred, healing, cosmological, among others - involved in sustaining collectivity. Her auto-ethnographic work explores diasporic experience, what listening means for D/deaf and Hard of Hearing people, and the impact of crip experience on research practice through text and drawings.
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Goldsmiths Profile