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Show Notes

Welcome to the second episode of Storying Sex! In this episode, Wilfredo and McKinley sit down and chat with Dr. Marlon M. Bailey, a Black queer theorist and critical/performance ethnographer who studies Black LGBTQ cultural formations, sexual health, and HIV/AIDS prevention. This conversation with Dr. Bailey runs the gamut, covering ballroom, HIV prevention tactics, and Black queer being.

Dr. Bailey is a Professor of African and African American Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Marlon has served as the Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor in Africana Studies at Carleton College; the Distinguished Weinberg Fellow in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University, and a Visiting Professor at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) at the University of California, San Francisco. Professor Bailey’s research interests include: African Diaspora studies, queer diasporas, race, gender, and sexuality, queer theory, Black queer studies, theatre/performance studies, ethnography, and HIV/AIDS (cultural politics, research, and prevention of HIV/AIDS in Black communities). A prolific and lauded author, he is the author of Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit (2013), which received the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize by the GL/Q Caucus from the Modern Language Association in 2014. You can read more about his work at his faculty page.

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