Christina Sharpe is a writer, Professor, and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto. She is the author of In the Wake: On Blackness, Being and Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects, and, most recently, Ordinary Notes, Winner of the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction. She is currently working on a monograph called Black. Still. Life. (Duke 2025).