an art-adjacent academic who is thinking, writing, and teaching in seattle

Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington

Founder & Director of The Black Embodiments Studio

Author of Feels Right: Black Queer Women & the Politics of Partying in Chicago

Co-Editor of Queer Nightlife

Writer of academic essays asking where the studs are in academic and arts institutions, trying to find more interesting/productive ways of describing racialized gendered violence, my favorite short essay on black (lesbian?) inside jokes that I think more people should have a laugh at, and others.

Frequent contributor to exhibition catalogues. Most recently for Alex Da Corte, Maren Hassinger and Senga Nengudi, and multiple artists in the Movements Toward Freedom exhibition.

I’ve also been spending the last few years being dramaturg for Will Rawls’ film installation and experimental performance, [siccer].

kadeyemi [@] uw [dot] edu