Hatim Rachdi

Hatim Rachdi is a PhD student in the combined degree program in Anthropology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. He holds an MA in Women, Society, and Development from Hamad Bin Khalifa University and a BS in Communication from Northwestern University in Qatar. His intellectual trajectory traces the intimate lives of marginalized communities navigating the precarity of structural violence and the shifting logics of domination and containment. Hatim’s research asks how indigeneity, gender, sexuality, and affect come to matter under conditions of loss and possibility. His current work examines Amazigh indigeneity in Morocco and its diasporas, staging encounters between feminist ethnography, expressive cultures, and trans-Atlantic indigenous life. Through this inquiry, he interrogates how colonial and postcolonial regimes of knowledge delimit the terms of belonging, and how minoritarian life resists, reclaims, and reimagines the conditions of relationality.