B.A., Honours in Communication, Media & Culture joint Publishing Media, Oxford Brookes University (2013)
A.A., Sociology, The College of The Bahamas (2007)
M.A., Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, UBC (2016)
Research
Simone is currently interested in exploring within Bahamian Canadian diasporic community’s the negotiation and performativity of the sexual identity of Bahamian women within intimate relationships. ‘What informs the Bahamian woman’s understanding of sexuality and how does this knowledge contribute to the negotiation and performance of her identity within intimate relationship’? I hope to locate themes such as sex, desire, pleasure, taboo culture, belonging, citizenship, identity, representations, contentions between holding multiple personalities and womanhood. It is possible this project will highlight underlying contentions in interracial relationships, the resoluteness of culture permanence, historical knowledge as a constraint to sexual liberation and the importance of narrative succession. This research may also tease out ideas toward the fluidity of culture, sex, race, gender and perceptions of belonging. Lastly it is hoped that this research will give Bahamian Canadian women an outlet for their stories as Black women to add to the reservoir of lived experiences that are so few within this ethnic community.
My current research examines the intertwining of legal history and gender relations in southern Yemen through an investigation of shifts in Family Law from 1986 to 1996. This chapter of South Yemeni history saw the disintegration of the South’s Leninist Marxist regime, the unification of North and South Yemen in 1990, and climaxed with a civil war in 1994. Yemen underwent considerable legislative and policy changes which had significant effects on women in the South. As a study of the historical present, this inquiry utilizes textual and qualitative methodologies grounded in feminist political economy and postcolonial theory. Topics and issues investigated in this research include the role of women in processes of state formation and transition, rethinking violence and statehood, the political economy of conflict, legal orientalism, and the relationship between Islamic law and gender.
Publications
Baobeid, I. 2015. Yemeni Drones: Discursive Media Reinforcement of US Hegemonic Power. UBC Journal of Political Studies, 17, p.62-74.
Awards
Faculty of Arts Graduate Award (2016)
International Tuition Award (2015)
UBC Graduate Scholarship – GRSJ Graduate Award (2015)
Go Global International Learning Programs Award (2013)
The interaction between race and British government policy and the English legal system – the legal theory, history and social influences that drive white male impunity and black male ‘criminality’.
