Trinity Tunstall

Situated within the English and WGSS departments, Trinity Tunstall’s research centers black feminisms, sexuality, and the paradoxical ambivalences that construct the discourse of subjectivity. Trinity holds a BA from Emory University. Her honors thesis “(Im)Possible: A Critical Ambivalence for Black Female Sexual Subjectivity” explores the dialectics of pain/pleasure, logics/illogics, and possibility/impossibility to confront contradictions that constitute discursive renderings of black womanhood. Continuing this work at Yale, Trinity is interested in expanding her scope of how sexuality renders personhood, especially for black women. Her focus aims to explore the potentials of desire, subversion, and paradox for discursively impossible subjectivities.