Tiffany King
Relations of Survival: Building a Black and Indigenous Feminisms in the Midst of War
April 13, 2023 / 3:30–5pm CT
Tiffany Lethabo King (her/they) is a descendant of African people enslaved in the US South. King is an associate professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Virginia. She is also a co-director of the Black and Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute (BIFFI) funded by the Mellon Foundation. King currently lives and works on Monacan lands.
King is the author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Duke University Press, 2019). As a scholar and teacher, she is committed to thinking about how centuries-long relationships between Black and Indigenous peoples have provided openings to alternative pasts, presents, and futures. Black and Indigenous liberation struggles informed by feminist and queer politics, artistic production, and quotidian acts of survival and experimentation inspire her forthcoming scholarly and community building work.
This talk was not recorded.
For more information on Tiffany King’s recent work, please check out this curated “playlist”:
The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies by Tiffany King
“In the Clearing: Black Female Bodies, Space and Settler Colonial Landscapes” by Tiffany King
Losing Faith in Work(s): Black and Indigenous Relations with Tiffany King [video]
“Labor’s Aphasia: Toward Antiblackness as Constitutive to Settler Colonialism” by Tiffany King
“Other Intimacies: Black Studies Notes on Native/Indigenous Studies” by Chad Infante, Sandra Harvey, Kelly Limes Taylor, and Tiffany King