Roksana Badruddoja

Dr. Roksana Badruddoja (pronoun she/they) is a feminine/masculine Woman of Color; an inherited family trauma liberation scholar; a tenured full professor of sociology, women and gender studies, and critical race and ethnicity studies at Manhattan University; and an interfaith and cross-cultural Akashic and urban shamanic practitioner. Roksana is summoned as a medicine woman in the tradition of the Gomti River as their cultural inheritance. They identify hidden patterns of generational traumas in family lines and has honed ancient technologies in hundreds of ceremonies for fifteen years. Roksana is the author of National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity (Haymarket 2022).

National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity

July 7, 2025April 11, 2025 By Roksana Badruddoja

Much queer theory in America is based on white male experience and privilege, excluding people of color and severely limiting its relevance to third-world activism. Dr. Roksana Badruddoja visits paradoxes, difficulties, unity, and diversity by unraveling the lives of two second-generation gender-queer South Asian American folx.