Ananya is a doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M. Her research engages with political philosophy and critical theory with a focus on colonial violence, subjectivity, and the possibilities of resistance. Her current project explores how the structures of autoimmunity and the colonial boomerang illuminate both the persistence of colonial technologies of violence and the psychic forms of injury they produce, with a special interest in practices of desubjectivation and alternative modes of political life. More broadly, her work is interested in the intersections of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and postcolonial thought, in relation to the question of whether politics can be otherwise.