Marc Ridgell is a second-year PhD student in Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Marc’s dissertation uses critical ethnography to examine how Black queer and trans people experience everyday place amid processes of gentrification and policing in the contemporary neoliberal city. Since starting at Penn, their developing work and studies have been supported by the National Science Foundation, Social Science Research Council, UPenn's Price Lab, and the Humanities, Urbanism, and Design Initiative. Marc graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis in 2023 as a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and Point Foundation Scholar.
Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman’s Millennial Style: The Politics of Experiment in Contemporary African Diasporic Culture (Duke University Press, 2024) astutely valorizes the speculative power and experimentation practices of black feminist and queer writers and artists who have produced works since the 1980s, … Continue reading “A Review of Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman’s Millennial Style”
