Abigal Muchecheti
Biographic Data
| ID | 5154687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abigal Muchecheti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abigal |
| FAMILY NAME | Muchecheti |
| SIGNATURE | MUCHECHETI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tessella (United Kingdom) |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-6860-9433 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Femicide as infrastructure
Femicide, the gender-related killing of women, is increasingly recognised as a patterned form of violence rather than a series of isolated acts. Yet it is still most often analysed through incident-based, legal or epidemiological frameworks that obscure the structural conditions under which women's deaths become predictable and recurrent. This article advances a feminist theoretical intervention by conceptualising femicide as infrastructure: a du…
More Than a Shade
This paper critically examines how colorism, foreignness, race, and gender intersect to shape the experiences of Black women and racially minoritized women in nonacademic roles within UK higher education. Although prior scholarship has examined race and gender in academia, limited attention has been paid to how institutional exclusion operates through skin tone hierarchies and perceived foreignness within professional services contexts. Drawing o…
Exhaustion as evidence
This essay examines the contemporary normalisation of exhaustion within feminist, activist and academic spaces, arguing that burnout is frequently misdiagnosed as an individual failure rather than understood as a structural condition. Drawing on Black feminist thought, disability justice frameworks and critiques of neoliberal governance, the essay reframes exhaustion as evidence of institutional and political arrangements that depend on continuou…
Spatialised power and the question of permission
Decolonising inclusion
This article critically examines how non-academic women of colour experience inclusion within UK higher education institutions. Drawing on narrative and semi-structured interviews, it reveals that inclusion is often choreographed through surface-level gestures that legitimise universities without redistributing power. The analysis develops three conceptual tools – curated inclusion, institutional affective discipline and progression ambiguity – t…
Refusing the silence
This article offers a critical, intersectional reflection on disability advocacy, grounded in the lived experience of a disabled Black woman navigating ableist employment structures and institutional neglect within UK public sector governance. Written from the author's standpoint as a disabled Black woman based in the UK higher education and public policy sphere, it draws from personal archives and direct action including correspondence with stat…
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Refusing the silence
This article offers a critical, intersectional reflection on disability advocacy, grounded in the lived experience of a disabled Black woman navigating ableist employment structures and institutional neglect within UK public sector governance. Written from the author's standpoint as a disabled Black woman based in the UK higher education and public policy sphere, it draws from personal archives and direct action including correspondence with stat…
Femicide as infrastructure
Femicide, the gender-related killing of women, is increasingly recognised as a patterned form of violence rather than a series of isolated acts. Yet it is still most often analysed through incident-based, legal or epidemiological frameworks that obscure the structural conditions under which women's deaths become predictable and recurrent. This article advances a feminist theoretical intervention by conceptualising femicide as infrastructure: a du…
More Than a Shade
This paper critically examines how colorism, foreignness, race, and gender intersect to shape the experiences of Black women and racially minoritized women in nonacademic roles within UK higher education. Although prior scholarship has examined race and gender in academia, limited attention has been paid to how institutional exclusion operates through skin tone hierarchies and perceived foreignness within professional services contexts. Drawing o…
Exhaustion as evidence
This essay examines the contemporary normalisation of exhaustion within feminist, activist and academic spaces, arguing that burnout is frequently misdiagnosed as an individual failure rather than understood as a structural condition. Drawing on Black feminist thought, disability justice frameworks and critiques of neoliberal governance, the essay reframes exhaustion as evidence of institutional and political arrangements that depend on continuou…
Spatialised power and the question of permission
Decolonising inclusion
This article critically examines how non-academic women of colour experience inclusion within UK higher education institutions. Drawing on narrative and semi-structured interviews, it reveals that inclusion is often choreographed through surface-level gestures that legitimise universities without redistributing power. The analysis develops three conceptual tools – curated inclusion, institutional affective discipline and progression ambiguity – t…
Critical Race Theory in Education (4 works) · Intersectionality (3 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (2 works) · Disability studies (2 works) · Economic Justice (2 works) · Higher education (2 works) · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Power (physics (2 works)