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Lakshmi Padmanabhan

Lakshmi Padmanabhan

Lakshmi Padmanabhan is assistant professor of film and media studies at Northwestern University. Her research and teaching interests include experimental cinema and visual art, postcolonial and critical-race theory, and queer feminisms. Her writing is published or forthcoming in Art History, Post45, Camera Obscura, New Review of Film and Television Studies, and Women and Performance. icon

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Facing Our Demons

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I May Destroy You explores how sexual violation is entangled in relations of visuality.

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