Itsue Nakaya-Pérez

I am a Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy at CUNY, The Graduate Center. I did my undergraduate studies at UNAM in Mexico City. I work in the areas of social ontology, philosophy of psychiatry, feminist philosophy, and decolonial philosophy. My research focuses on the categorization of human beings; particularly, I am interested in the relationship between the self and the natural or social kinds we are members of. On the one hand, classifying seems to be an inevitable human practice and a fundamental cognitive tool to understand the world; on the other, it constrains our experience of it and could lead to different injustices. I focus on this tension as well as on practices of resistance towards oppressive classificatory systems.