A Perfect Storm: Black Feminism and Women’s National Basketball Association Black Athlete Activism
Why We Must #SayHerName: A Black Feminist Look at Athlete Activism
“Thug,” “Classless,” and the Policing of Black Womanhood in Sports: A Case Study of Racialized Language and Angel Reese
No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much.” Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’…No woman has ever written enough.
— bell hooks
My Research
2026
Theory (CRT). I have written articles and book chapters, collaborated with faculty and students, and published in a wide range of peer reviewed journals, and edited volumes. Like one of my favorite writers and scholar, Zora Neal Hurston once wrote, I sincerely believe that “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” My goal remains to critically examine the social world by paying attention to the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, social class, nation, and age.
M
y research is guided most by Black Feminist Thought (BFT), womanism, intersectionality and Critical Race