Research.
I am a sociologist and ethnographer who studies how the daily practices we engage in highlight the occurrence of inequality, resistance, and social change in our society. 

In all of my work, I am interested in understanding the resistance strategies adopted by groups that have been historically excluded from full participation in U.S. democratic processes. My current book project, Refusing Erasure: Crisis, Resistance and the Self-Preservation Politics of Black Transgender Women leverages ethnographic and fieldwork methods to explore the ways that Black transgender women in the U.S. South experience and resist systemic erasure. Refusing Erasure reveals how symbolic visibility can coexist with material neglect and how Black trans women fight back.

Publications: 

Loder, Kimya. 2025. "Claiming Space in the Margins: Community Organizations as Liminal Spaces for Black Transgender Women Navigating Political Polarization in the U.S. South." Polarising Sexualities and Genders: Divisions, Differences,  and LGBTQIA+ Equalities. Edited by Browne, Kath, and Emily Kayak. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Loder, Kimya. 2024. "Civic Narratives: Political Exclusion, Agency, and Civic Participation Among Black Residents in San Francisco." Qualitative Sociology .47 (745-766). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-024-09575-9 

Loder, Kimya and Forrest Stuart. 2023. "Displacement frames: How residents perceive,
explain and respond to un-homing in Black San Fransisco." Urban Studies, 60 (6), 1013-1030. https://doi-org.stanford.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/00420980221131231