Focusing on the themes of belonging, queer relationality, and Black women’s labor, Professor Akinbola will discuss her book in progress, Transatlantic Disbelongings: Anti-Respectability, Queerness, and Diasporic Homemaking in Nigerian Women’s Art, and share reflections from her most recent performance, “You Gotta Know It”: A durational meditation on (black) collectivity, labor, and joy.

Bimbola Akinbola (Assistant Professor, Performance Studies, Northwestern University) is a Chicago-based artist and scholar. Working at the intersection of African diaspora studies, performance, visual culture, and postcolonial theory, her scholarly work is concerned with kinship and belonging, gender performance, and affect in the African diaspora. She is currently working on her first book manuscript, which examines disbelonging and diasporic homemaking in the creative work of contemporary Nigerian diasporic women artists. Her essays have also been published in Text and Performance Quarterly and Women Studies Quarterly.

This event is part of the Minoritarian Performance Research Cluster.

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