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S. M. Rodriguez

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S. M. Rodriguez
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S. M. Rodriguez at Tate Modern, London, 2025
Born
🏳️ CitizenshipAmerican
🏫 EducationUniversity of Florida (BA)
Stony Brook University (MA, PhD)
💼 Occupation
Scholar, activist, author, anti-violence community organiser
👔 EmployerLondon School of Economics and Political Science
Known forResearch on LGBTQ+ movements, penal abolitionism, healing justice, and transnational advocacy
Notable workThe Economies of Queer Inclusion: Transnational Organizing for LGBTI Rights in Uganda
🌐 Websitehttps://www.smrodriguez.com

S. M. Rodriguez is a scholar of feminist, queer, and critical race studies whose work examines carceral systems, anti‑violence organizing, and global human rights.[1][2] They are Assistant Professor of Gender, Rights and Human Rights in the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Rodriguez has published research in peer‑reviewed journals including Social Justice, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and Feminist Legal Studies, as well as written The Economies of Queer Inclusion.[2][3][4] They also initiated the Black Queer Movements and the Black Professors Pipeline.[3][4]

Early life and education

S. M. Rodriguez earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in Sociology, Spanish, and Women's studies from the University of Florida. They subsequently attended Stony Brook University, earning a Master of Arts in Sociology in 2012, followed by a PhD in Sociology in 2016.[5]

Career

Rodriguez is currently an Assistant Professor of Gender, Rights and Human Rights in the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).[3][6] Prior to joining LSE, they served as Assistant Professor of Criminology and Director of LGBTQ+ Studies at Hofstra University.[1][4]

Research and scholarship

Rodriguez's academic work examines the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, disability, criminalisation, and state violence, drawing on criminology, sociology, gender studies, Black studies, and critical social theory.[7][4][8][9] Their scholarship addresses queer social movements, anti‑colonial politics, abolitionist feminism, healing justice, violence prevention, and transformative justice, with a focus on transnational LGBTQ+ organising in Africa and the relationship between international advocacy networks and local activism.[10][11][12][13]

Activism

Alongside their academic career, Rodriguez has worked as a community organiser and advocate, participating in anti-violence initiatives, Black Lives Matter, and movements seeking alternatives to punitive and carceral approaches to social harm.[1][14] They served as a core member of the Safe OUTside the System (SOS) Collective and on the Board of directors of the Audre Lorde Project, where Cara Page was Executive director.[1][15][16][17] They also started Black Queer Movements, a platform for knowledge exchange among activists of African descent working on issues related to gender, sexuality, and social justice, and additionally initiated the Black Professors Pipeline, which supports access, equity, and representation within higher education.[3][18]

The Economies of Queer Inclusion

In 2019, Rodriguez published The Economies of Queer Inclusion: Transnational Organizing for LGBTI Rights in Uganda with Lexington Books.[12] The book examines LGBTQ+ organising in Uganda during debates surrounding anti-homosexuality legislation, analysing the role of international donors, advocacy organisations, and transnational networks in shaping local movement strategies through ethnographic research, interviews, and policy analysis.[4] In a review for Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies, Katharina Wiedlack commended its use of counter‑storytelling and decolonial analysis to challenge dominant Western narratives about Uganda and LGBTQ+ organising, while noting that the agency and strategies of Ugandan activists themselves were underrepresented in the analysis.[11]

Selected publications

  • Rodriguez, S. M. (2026). "Enforcing the 'Unnatural Offence': Sodomy Legislation and Anti‑Queer Panoptic Policing in Uganda". Feminist Legal Studies. doi:10.1007/s10691-026-09604-8.
  • Rodriguez, S. M. (2025). "Reconceptualizing Gender Transitioning: Recognition, Flexibility, and Safety in Nonbinary Identity Journeys." Sociological Inquiry. First published 21 June 2025. doi:10.1111/soin.70018
  • Rodriguez, S. M. (2025). "Respatialising the Global Imaginary of Gay Rights: Resisting Africana Epistemicide and Forging Solidaristic Imaginaries". The International Journal of Human Rights. doi:10.1080/13642987.2025.2561667
  • Rodriguez, S. M. (2023). "Forging Black Safety in the Carceral Diaspora: Perverse Criminalization, Sexual Corrections, and Connection-Making in a Death World". Social Justice.
  • Rodriguez, S. M. (2022). "Queers against Corrective Development: LGBTSTGNC Anti-Violence Organizing in Gentrifying Times". GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 28 (2): 165–184. JSTOR. doi:10.1215/10642684-9608105
  • Rodriguez, S. M.; Ben-Moshe, L.; Rakes, H. (2020). "Carceral Protectionism and the Perpetually (In)Vulnerable". Criminology & Criminal Justice 20 (5): 537–550. doi:10.1177/1748895820947450
  • Rodriguez, S. M. (2019). The Economies of Queer Inclusion: Transnational Organizing for LGBTI Rights in Uganda. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. ISBN 9781498581738 Search this book on ..
  • Rodriguez, S. M. (2017). "Homophobic Nationalism: The Development of Sodomy Legislation in Uganda". Comparative Sociology.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Abraham, Margaret (21 February 2021). "The Brilliance of BLM: An Interview with Dr. S.M. Rodriguez". Global Dialogue. International Sociological Association. Retrieved 9 June 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rodriguez, S. M.; Rakes, H; Healy, Kennedy; Ben-Moshe, Liat (2022). "Depathologization as Healing Justice". QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. Michigan State University Press. 9 (3): 11–34. Retrieved 9 June 2026.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Department of Gender Studies. "S.M. Rodriguez – Faculty Profile". London School of Economics and Political Science. LSE Gender Studies. Retrieved 9 June 2026.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Haunting the Criminological Imagination: Abolition as a Diasporicised Method". Faculty of Law. University of Oxford. Retrieved 9 June 2026.
  5. ↑ "S.M. Rodriguez – LinkedIn". LinkedIn. LinkedIn Corporation. Retrieved 9 June 2026.
  6. ↑ "Love, creativity and abolition in and beyond academia". CRASSH. Cambridge, UK: University of Cambridge. 13–14 March 2026. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
  7. ↑ Rodriguez, S.M. (2023). "Forging Black Safety in the Carceral Diaspora: Perverse Criminalization, Sexual Corrections, and Connection-Making in a Death World". Social Justice. Social Justice. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  8. ↑ Rodriguez, S.M. "Abolition and Black Feminist Imagination – Oxford Abolitionist Imaginaries". Oxford Law Faculty. University of Oxford. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  9. ↑ Nyanzi, Stella (2024). "Persecuted for Poetry, Peaceful Protests and Public Nudity: Autoethnography of a Ugandan Exiled Ex-convict". In Di Ronco, Anna; Selmini, Rossella. Criminalisation of Dissent in Times of Crisis. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 461–485. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-75376-3_20. Retrieved 13 June 2026. Search this book on
  10. ↑ Rodriguez, S.M. (22 March 2026). "Enforcing the "Unnatural Offence": Sodomy Legislation and Anti‑Queer Panoptic Policing in Uganda". Feminist Legal Studies. Springer. doi:10.1007/s10691-026-09604-8. Retrieved 10 June 2026.CS1 maint: Date and year (link)
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Wiedlack, Katharina (1 November 2019). "Review of The Economies of Queer Inclusion: Transnational Organizing for LGBTI Rights in Uganda". Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies. SUNY Cortland Digital Commons. 20 (1). Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Rodriguez, S.M. (2019). The Economies of Queer Inclusion: Transnational Organizing for LGBTI Rights in Uganda. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. Retrieved 10 June 2026. Search this book on
  13. ↑ Conway, Daniel (2025). "Conceptualising Queer Activist Critiques of Pride in the Two-Thirds World: Queer Activism and Alternative Pride Organising in South Africa, Mumbai, Hong Kong and Shanghai". Sexualities. SAGE Publications. 28 (3): 1314–1329. doi:10.1177/13634607241248898. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
  14. ↑ Otu, Kwame Edwin; van Klinken, Adriaan (2023). "African Studies Keywords: Queer" (PDF). African Studies Review. Cambridge University Press. 66 (2): 509–530. doi:10.1017/asr.2022.163. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
  15. ↑ "ALP Evolving". Audre Lorde Project. Audre Lorde Project. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  16. ↑ Page, Cara. "About". Cara Page. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  17. ↑ "No Roses From My Mouth" (PDF). Heinrich Böll Stiftung. Heinrich Böll Stiftung. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
  18. ↑ "BQM Global official website". Black Queer Movements (BQM). Retrieved 10 June 2026.

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