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Elizabeth-Serwaa Peprah
PhD Student
Cultural Studies
Elizabeth-Serwaa (pronounced 鈥淪ay-Waah鈥) Peprah is a first-year doctoral student in the Cultural Studies program at Queen鈥檚 University. As a scholar-activist and survivor, Elizabeth-Serwaa鈥檚 work is defined by a direct confrontation towards the systems of thought which both encourage and enforce 鈥渕isogynoir鈥 against racialized and marginalized women.
Her research interests include the erasure of African-Canadian women from discourses on rape culture/MeToo/prevention, Afro diasporic studies, Pan-Africanist consciousness, and Womanist grassroots organizing and community work. Elizabeth-Serwaa is an 鈥淎CB鈥 (African, Caribbean, Black) Gender-Based Violence Specialist with the Canadian Center for Women鈥檚 Empowerment (CCFWE), and she blogs on GBV and Africana women at .