Rusaba Alam is a PhD candidate in English and a sessional lecturer at the Social Justice Institute. She writes about kinship, subjectivity, and the politics of knowledge in contemporary ecological thinking. Her dissertation tracks the aesthetic status of the figural in experimental poetry, speculative fiction, and radical political critique in English and Bengali. Her article, “Mistaken Identity: Asian-Indigenous Relation and the Afterlives of Feminist Critique,” is forthcoming in Canadian Literature.