Sabbatical

Ooh, sabbatical is REAL. Kinda. The volume I co-edited with drea brown – TEACHING BLACK: THE CRAFT OF TEACHING ON BLACK LIFE AND LITERATURE (University of Pittsburgh Press)  – is expected to come out in November 2021!!! To learn more about this project, check out our social media (@teachingblk, facebook: Teaching Black). Order your advanced […]

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Sanctuary, A Performance

Yesterday, we did it, we created “Sanctuary”, a performance. I am so grateful to each of the artists, the tech crew, the production crew, my students, performance witnesses, museum staff and my director, D’Lo. This was a powerful and deeply moving event. Today, I am sitting with the joy and profound reverberations produced by this […]

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Sanctuary – Get a Ticket Now!

Sanctuary, A Performance: Get a ticket now! Sanctuary is a live-streamed event of combined live and virtual performance exploring women/queer people of color’s collective experiences of seeking refuge from persecution under the ongoing violence of colonization. Sanctuary is a collaboration between Ana-Maurine Lara, lead artist, and collaborating artists Akiko Hatakeyama, Rosamond S. King and Courtney […]

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Interviews & Conversations online

I wanted to share this interview that I had with the New Books in Anthropology podcast, put together and directed by Reighan Gillam. Thank you Dr. Gillam, for this wonderful opportunity to speak about Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic and Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty. https://newbooksnetwork.com/streetwalking And here is a write up […]

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Good news!

I just wrote a small creative non-fiction piece, published in the Bellingham Review, titled “Rice and Sancocho“. Thanks to Jai Dulani for the invitation to submit! I was also just awarded a Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Black Lives Matter Award!! The grant money is going to the new iteration of Sanctuary, set to go […]

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The Marassa/Ibeyi/Imagua are here!!

My first academic books were just published. The academy tends to privilege “firsts,” but really, these two books came into fruition simultaneously. Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty (SUNY Press – Afro Latinx Futures Series, 2020) Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic (Rutgers University Press – Critical Caribbean Studies Series, 2020) In Afro-Indigenous traditions […]

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