PhD Student in Jurisprudence and Social Policy
(he/him)
BA, History and Legal Studies, UC Berkeley (2022)
Sid is interested in the social construction of identity and criminality around sexual and gendered behavior. In particular, he examines the ways in which mechanisms of social control have shaped queer activist movements in the twentieth century and how mainstream queer activism has come to center an archetypal "docile queer body" that neatly subsumes into existing normative frameworks and that is easily controlled by the state.
Sid received his BA from UC Berkeley in 2022, where he graduated with Highest Honors in Legal Studies and High Honors in History. Outside of academia, he has worked as an Office Administrator for a nonprofit in San Quentin State Prison, where he worked with incarcerated individuals to articulate their personal histories for e-publication. He has also served as an editor for the TGI Justice Project, where he helped curate Stiletto, an abolitionist magazine written by and for incarcerated trans and gender-nonconforming individuals and distributed in prisons across the country.