Dr. Silhouette Bushay
Founder and Director
Dr Bushay is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of East London, in the United Kingdom where she is also a member of the Centre for Social Change and Justice and the Centre for Wellbeing, Communities and Inclusion. Her research is concerned with racial/racialised gendered justice where she examines Black girlhood and Black womanhood in Britain primarily in the twentieth and twenty-first century. Silhouette’s thesis entitled ‘Uncovering a Grimey Hip Hop Critical Race (Feminist) Pedagogy’ (2025) examines Black girl space, lives and pedagogies in Britain. Her book chapter ‘Public Pedagogies of Resistance: Black British Women, Talk Di Ting’ in the Black Music in Britain in the Twenty-First Century (2023) publication foregrounds scholarship from a British context that engages Black womanhood, Hip Hop, Grime and pedagogical insights.