About me
Dr. Nadia Naomi Mbonde is a sociocultural anthropologist, multimedia artist, and Mad Black mother based in Brooklyn, New York. Her research centers Black reproductive mental health, tracing how psychiatric governance, obstetric management, and family regulation accumulate harm across the reproductive life course, from menarche to menopause, long before institutions name it as such. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from New York University, where she developed latency as a concept for this structural delay, and a certificate in documentary filmmaking in Culture and Media. Her writing appears in Disability Studies Quarterly, American Anthropologist, and the NYU Press anthology How To Be Disabled in a Pandemic. Her multimedia work, including the experimental film An Astrological Diagnosis, treats psychosis, altered states, and Black motherhood as archives of embodied knowledge rather than pathological symptoms.
