Dancing in front of the May Day march against the state of Arizona’s draconian anti-immigration laws down Broadway in New York City, one protestor in festive spring drag.
(Photo by Marc Mayer).
Tavia Nyong'o
Tavia Nyong’o is William Lampson Professor of American Studies at Yale University and curator of public programs at the Park Avenue Armory. A scholar of performance, race, and aesthetics, he is author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (2009), Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (2018), and Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World (2025). He is a member of the Social Text editorial collective.
