Data Politics and State Systems: The politics of data related to missing and murdered Black women and girls, highlighting systemic rebuilding efforts, DNA reference sample challenges, and legal perspectives on equal protection. 

Research Theories and Methods: Black feminist disappearance theory, police violence mapping, and the documentation and prevention of femicide in Canada, emphasizing theoretical and methodological approaches. 

Media, Literary, and Social Norms: Media bias and underreporting, psychological analyses of policy application, literary representations of Black girlhood and sexual abuse, and the impact of social norms on violence against Black and Brown women in various contexts. 

Memory, Intersectionality, and Digital Archives: Ancestral memory as a visibility praxis, historical erasure in legal cases, intersectional vulnerabilities and protections, trauma and collective care, and efforts toward creating digital repositories in memory of enslaved women. 

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