madison moore, Kemi Adeyemi

BIOS

Kemi Adeyemi is Assistant Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University. Her books include Feels Right: Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago (Duke University Press, September 2022), and the co-edited volume Queer Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2021). Her recent writing has appeared in journals like GLQ and Women & Performance, and in the edited volumes Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Routledge Companion to African American Art History. Kemi founded and directs The Black Embodiments Studio, an arts writing incubator and public programming initiative dedicated to building discourse around contemporary Black art.

madison moore, Ph.D. (American Studies, Yale), is an artist-scholar, DJ, and assistant professor of Queer Studies in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. They are broadly invested in the aesthetic, sonic, and spatial strategies queer and trans people of color use to both survive and thrive in the face of rolling catastrophe. His first book, Fabulous: The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric (Yale University Press, 2018), offers a cultural analysis of fabulousness as a practice of resistance. Other articles have been published in venues including The Atlantic, Theater, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies. madison has performed internationally at a range of nightclubs, parties, and art institutions, including the Perth Festival, Performance Space Sydney, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, American Realness, Tate Britain, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. madison is writing a book titled Dance Mania: A Manifesto for Queer Nightlife. In summer 2022, madison will be an artist-in-residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute.