I Choose Feminism

Kimberly Martinez Phillips, Ph.D.

About Me

I am a 2025/2026 Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Feminist Research at York University in Toronto, Ontario. I am a researcher, storyteller and speaker who plays within the realms of Decolonial Feminism, Feminist Standpoint Theory, Single Studies, Childfree Studies, and Sociology of Race and Gender. My dissertation studied childfree, never-married, single women of color. I continue to teach, conduct research, and write articles. I look forward to doing more public engagement and am currently working on turning my dissertation into a book about Autonomous Women.

Purpose Statement

Through advocacy and engagement, I am committed to lift as I climb. Too often women of color have been ignored in scholarship. As Anna Julia Cooper understood the “radical potential of education,” is only a possibility. It is up to us to make it a reality. Therefore, I have embraced the Black Women’s Club Movement’s slogan lift as we climb and it is my intention to do just that. My academic concentrations include using the theoretical perspectives of decolonial feminism and standpoint theory to analyze the matters of sexism, racism and systematic oppression through an intersectional lens. My ambition is to continue engaging within academia, the media and public about issues that impact the lives of all women and women of color in particular.