Black Feminist Disability Studies Meets Hip Hop Feminism in Janelle Monaé’s “Dirty Computer”
Global Perspectives on Race and Racism
November 14, 2023
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Central Time
Black Feminist Disability Studies Meets Hip Hop Feminism in Janelle Monaé's Dirty Computer
In this talk, we will discuss how Black Feminist Disability Studies theories and methodologies can enrich and expand interventions in Hip-Hop Feminism through a critical engagement with Janelle Monaé’s visual album, Dirty Computer.
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About the Speaker
Dr. Anna LaQuawn Hinton is an Assistant professor of Disability Studies and Black Literature & Culture in the English Department at the University of North Texas. She has published on disability regarding constructions of Black motherhood, masculinity in hip-hop, spaces of incarceration, reproductive justice in literature, and African and Afro-Diasporic spiritual practice as technology in outlets such as the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies (JLCDS) and CLA Journal, as well as The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body and The Palgrave Handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature. She is currently writing her monograph, Refusing to Be Made Whole: Disability in Contemporary Black Women's Writing, which approaches conversations about aesthetics, spirituality, representation, community, sexuality, motherhood, and futurity. Dr. Hinton is also Public Relations Director for the College Language Association (CLA), Forum Executive Committee, TC Disability Studies, and a member of the Committee for Persons with Disabilities for the City of Denton (Texas).
She is a disabled-queer-momma Black feminist, who “Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. (and striving to) Loves herself. Regardless.”*
*Alice Walker
Date posted
Oct 20, 2023
Date updated
Nov 8, 2023