Elizabeth-Serwaa Peprah

Elizabeth-Serwaa (pronounced “Say-Waah”) Peprah is a first-year doctoral student in the Cultural Studies program at Queen’s University. As a scholar-activist and survivor, Elizabeth-Serwaa’s work is defined by a direct confrontation towards the systems of thought which both encourage and enforce “misogynoir” 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 “ACB” (African, Caribbean, Black) Gender-Based Violence Specialist with the Canadian Center for Women’s Empowerment (CCFWE), and she blogs on GBV and Africana women at https://www.serwaaspeaks.com/.