Suvi Lensu

Suvi Lensu is a PhD candidate in African Studies and Social Anthropology and simultaneously part of the ANTHUSIA research project. By drawing from feminist anthropologist methods, she examines the feminisation of the informal economy in the East African borderlands. She is also a writer, editor and digital content producer at AntroBlogi, a Finnish language anthropological online journal. Her research interests include:

• Gender and sexuality
• Social anthropology
• Visual anthropology
• Borderlands
• Women’s livelihoods
• Cosmopolitanism
• Feminist research
• Sex work
• LGBTQ
• Rwanda
• East Africa
• Latin America.