Kianna Hinds

Kianna began her ESRC-funded PhD in the LSE Gender department in 2026. Her doctoral research explores how Black queer women of Caribbean heritage conceptualise and navigate desire and beauty across different socio-geographical locations, focusing on comparative case studies in London, England and Castries, Saint Lucia. Kianna’s work is grounded in Black queer feminist and decolonial frameworks; her research will draw on Black feminist anthropological qualitative practices using ethnographic interviews.

Previously, Kianna worked across applied academic and public health research. She worked as a Researcher at the University of Salford on the AHRC-funded Covid Sex Lives Project, exploring intimacy and sexual health practices. More recently, she worked within the NHS, conducting user and evaluative research across digital products and global health programs.

Kianna holds an MA in Gender, Sexuality and Culture from the University of Manchester and a BA in Sociology, specialising in Gender Studies from the University of Warwick.

Her research interests include:

• Black lesbian subjectivities
• Black queer feminisms
• Queer Caribbean diasporas
• Caribbean Feminisms
• Geographies of Desire
• Desire
• Sexualities
• Femme/Stud Cultures and High Femme Aesthetics
• Decolonial and queer ethnography

Personal website: https://krsh.studio/

Supervisory team: Dr SM Rodriguez and Dr Rohit Dasgupta

Kianna is happy to collaborate with or connect with researchers who share similar research interests. Feel free to reach out via email.