What follows below are my remarks at the 2018 National Women’s Studies Association Conference honoring the work of Beverly Guy-Sheftall. It is my great honor to say a few words about the incomparable Beverly Guy-Sheftall. To give her her flowers while she is here. Who would have thought a shy girl from Memphis, Tennessee…
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Sense8!
I am excited to announce my participation in a Sense8 roundtable in the latest issue of the Journal Spectator on Transgender Media edited by the fabulous Roxanne Samer. I talk with brilliant colleagues about the ways that race, gender, and sexuality show up in the series. Check it out!
Hello, again!
It has been an incredibly long time again. I am happy to report that I have accepted the position of assistant professor in the Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies and the program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. My work focuses on Black women’s use of digital media to promote social justice…
When Margins Become Centered: Black Queer Women in Front and Outside of the Classroom
My co-authored piece with my colleague Shannon Nasah-Miller, When Margins Become Centered: Black Queer Women in Front and Outside of the Classroom is live in the Special Issue Institutional Feelings: Practicing Women’s Studies in the Corporate University of Feminist Formations. Heres our abstract This article revisits the authors’ experiences as Black queer women teaching undergraduates and…
#transformDH Conference 2015: A Recap
I have the privilege of being in a really wonderful collaborative relationship with scholars I have long admired. It is this community of #transformDH led by the fabulous Alexis Lothian that convened and successfully executed the #transformDH Conference and THATCamp October 2-3, in Maryland. We were able to talk about our experiences that led to the…
#transform(ing)DH Writing and Research: An Autoethnography of Digital Humanities and Feminist Ethics
Hey All, Its been a long time since Ive posted but I am reinvigorated by my participation in the #transformDH Conference at the University of Maryland this past weekend. I mentioned the following article in my remarks this weekend. #transform(ing)DH Writing and Research: An Autoethnography of Digital Humanities and Feminist Ethics My research highlights the…
I’m Back!
What may seem like a long hiatus, has actually been filled with more productivity than can quite be captured in a blog post. Ive settled into my new(ish) position as a postdoctoral Fellow in Womens, Gender & Sexuality Studies and the NU Lab for Digital Humanities at Northeastern. I am having a fantastic time. Ill…
NWSA Approved! Women’s Technolabor: Acts of Advocacy Online, in Media, and On Stage
This panel examines the technolabor of women in the US across multiple mediums. By technolabor we mean, women’s work with digital and material technologies such as the electric guitar, web-based platforms such as Twitter and Tumblr, and online health forums and websites like WebMD and Our Bodies, Our Blog. These three papers emerge at the…
Politics, Homophobia, and Resistance Oh My!
Yesterday, three pieces I wrote or contributed to all showed up in my inbox within minutes of each other. They range from discussions in hip hop culture to participatory politics as resistance. See more below. Participations: Dialogues on the Participatory Promise of Contemporary Culture and Politics Part 3: POLITICS Your questions have me thinking about digital…
ASA Approved! Octavia Butler’s Wild Seeds: An Acorn Community Gathering
Join Ayana Jamieson, adrienne maree brown, Walidah Imarisha, and me at the American Studies Association Conference in LA November 6-9 for Octavia Butler’s Wild Seeds: An Acorn Community Gathering! As members of the Octavia Butler Legacy Network, we invite ASA participants to an Acorn community gathering and invocation in the spirit of Afrofuturist, MacArthur “Genius” Award…