Tiffany Lethabo King will be presenting new work from her project Red and Black Alchemy of Flesh: Conjuring a Decolonial and Abolitionist Now.Sponsored by the Earl and Edna Stice Lectureship in the Social Sciences and the UW Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies.

Tiffany King is an Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. Her research is situated at intersections of slavery and indigenous genocide in the Americas. King’s book The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies (Duke University Press, 2019) argues that scholarly traditions within Black Studies that examine Indigenous genocide alongside slavery in the Americas have forged ethical and generative engagements with Native Studies—and Native thought—that continue to reinvent the political imaginaries of abolition and decolonization. In 2020, The Black Shoals was awarded the American Studies Association’s Lora Romero First Book Prize. King is also co-editor of an anthology titled Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Black Racism (Duke University Press 2020).