Where Are Black Girls Safe?
In this lecture, Dr. Aria S. Halliday will discuss her trajectory within the field of Black Girlhood Studies, its place within larger fields such as Women’s Studies, Black Studies, and interdisciplinary studies, and the cultural work required to create safety for Black girls, their intellectual and creative contributions, and their futures.
Dr. Halliday is Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the Program in African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. She specializes in cultural constructions of Black girlhood and womanhood in material, visual, and digital culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her interdisciplinary interests include sexuality, Black feminism, and radicalism in Black popular culture in the United States and the Caribbean. Dr. Halliday is the editor of The Black Girlhood Studies Collection (Women’s Press, 2019) and co-editor of a special issue on hip-hop feminism in Journal of Hip Hop Studies (2020). Her book Beyond Barbie: Nicki Minaj, Disney, and Black Women’s Cultural Production is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press. Dr. Halliday currently serves as chair of the National Women’s Studies Association's Girls and Girls' Studies Caucus.
Hosted by the Gender Studies Program, and co-sponsored by the Departments of Africana Studies, American Studies, and Film, Television, & Theatre
Originally published at genderstudies.nd.edu.