Cassandra Troyan

Cassandra Troyan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Design at Linnaeus University, and Co-Director of Visual Communication + Change: a programme investigating art and design’s role in fostering sustainable socio-ecological transformation, where they teach theory, practice, and creative-critical writing. Their current research investigates apparatuses of state domination and surveillance through political, artistic, poetic, and theoretical practices toward a horizon of prison abolition, transspecies liberation, and sex work against work. They are the author of several books of multi-genre work, including A Theory in Tears (2016), Freedom & Prostitution (2020), and most recently Against Capture (2022). Recent or forthcoming publications can be found at Another Gaze, Portable Gray and with Helen V. Pritchard, the chapter, “The Anti Menagerie: Methods for Interrogating the Supremacy of World-Shaping Violence,” in Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practice.