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2025  

     

Les 30 Nuances de Noir(es).Afrikadaa Magazine. No. 17. Politics of Sound #2: les musiques qui réparent les corps et les récits.

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Kinethic California book interview by Washington DC-based writer and performance artist Holly Bass

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2024 

     

Kinethic California: Dancing Funk & Disco Kinships. Dance Studies Association. Studies in Dance Series. Detroit: University of Michigan Press.

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NEH Open Book Award

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Q&A with Author Naomi Macalalad Bragin

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Cover art d. Sabela grimes

2022  

     

Streetdance and Black Aesthetics.” Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies. Eds. Mary Fogarty and Imani Kai Johnson. 

Oxford University Press.

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2014  

     

Shot and Captured: Turf Dance, YAK Films, and the Oakland, California, R.I.P. Project.” TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies, 58.2.

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2013   Graduate Essay Award, TDR Journal of Performance Studies

2015   Gerald Kahn Scholar’s Prize, American Society of Theatre Research

2015   Outstanding Dance Publication, Congress on Research in Dance

Screen grab courtesy of YAK Films, 2009. 

2018  

     

"On the Front Porch: Deborah McCoy and Fresno Streetdance." Tropics of Meta. Fresno State Valley Public History Project.​

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2014   

     

Techniques of Black Male Re/Dress: Corporeal Drag & Kinesthetic Politics in the Rebirth of Waacking/ Punkin.’” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 24.1 Special Issue: “All Hail the Queenz: A Queer Feminist Recalibration of Hip Hop Scholarship.” Eds. Jessica Pabón and Shanté Smalls.

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2014   Hickman Essay Award, UC Berkeley Dept. of Performance Studies

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"Critical intimacies: hip hop as queer feminist pedagogy." Jessica N. Pabón & Shanté Paradigm Smalls.

Artist: Abby TC5, Queens, 2013.

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