Loading
Nikki Lane, Ph.D
  • Home
  • About
  • Summer School
  • Blog
  • My Work and Play Portfolio
  • Private Lessons
  • Contact & Booking
  • Search
  • Menu

Publications

2016 Bringing Flesh to Theory: Ethnography, Black Queer Theory, and Black Sexuality Studies. Feminist Studies 42(3): 632-648.

2015 All the Lesbians are White, All the Villages are Gay, but Some of Us are Brave: Intersectionality, Modernity, and Black Queer Women’s Scene Space in Washington, D.C. In Lesbian Geographies: Gender, Place, and Power. Kath Browne and Eduarda Ferreira, eds. Ashgate

Woman wearing a bowtie with bright red lipstick and a sleek sexy jawline.

2011 Black Women Queering the Mic: Missy Elliott Disturbing the Boundaries of Racialized Sexuality and Gender.
Journal of Homosexuality 58(6-7): 775-792.

Dissertation

This dissertation examines the spatial and discursive practices of black queer women (hereafter BQW) in Washington, D.C. Drawing from ethnographic research conducted within “the Scene,” a colloquialism referring to the transient collection of leisure spaces in D.C. produced for and by other BQW including book clubs, professional sporting events, private house parties, semi-public events held in mainstream venues, happy hours, and annual Black Pride Celebrations, I explore the way BQW actively bend, borrow, and queer language, space, and black cultural values to make room for their unique expressions of black female sexuality within black sexual politics, American popular culture, and the urban landscape. There are two key levels of analysis: (1) I examine the way BQW produce and maintain the “BQW Scene” within the context of a city that is both “gay-friendly” and majority black; and, (2) using critical discourse analysis alongside queer theoretical approaches to the study of affect, I analyze discourses of belonging, self, and others which manifest in my informant’s discussions of the scene. This dissertation demonstrates how BQW make sense of multiple, sometimes contradictory normative practices related to race, gender, sexuality, and class. In so doing, it explicates the interrelationships among race, gender, sexuality, and class as they instantiate themselves within space and discourse.

Read the Preface

Read the whole thing!

Lectures & Talks

Click here for more info

Upcoming events, booking, topics

Selected Courses

Beyoncé: Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Seminar Statement

Since 1990, singer and performer Beyoncé has worked to cultivate an iconic status within the American popular imagination. This course uses Beyoncé and her body of work–music, lyrics, images, and video– as a set of “texts,” challenging students to critically engage with issues that these texts present including racial iconicity, popular feminism, and representations of black womanhood. Students will learn and apply key theories in cultural studies related to race, gender, and sexuality as well as their intersections. Further, students will examine black women’s representations since the early 20th century, placing Beyoncé within a broader frame of American popular culture and its expectations of black women.

Sexuality & Culture (Online)

Course Overview

This course is guided by the idea that beliefs about sexuality and sexual practices is one of the most fundamental aspects of cultural experience and knowledge. Anthropologists have always been interested in the body, social identities, and human relationships of which sexuality becomes a profound aspect of understanding the connections between these ideas. In this course, students will explore the anthropological study of sexuality through a range of cross-cultural case studies and through engagement with foundational theoretical texts about sex, sexuality, and gender. Throughout the course, students will be challenged to problematize “common sense” ideas regarding femininity and masculinity, relations between genders, and gender and sexual binaries rooted in Western notions of the sexed body.

Crossword Puzzles

  • The Purple One: A Crossword Tribute

    Read more
  • Great Moments in Ratchet History: The Crossword

    Read more
  • Crossword Puzzle: Black Stuff from the 90s

    Read more
  • Crossword Puzzle: Game of Hunger

    Read more
  • Brain Therapy: A Crossword of Ice and Fire

    Read more
  • Conscious Culture Eater Crossword: It’s Scandalous

    Read more
  • Conscious Culture Eater Crossword: Marvel’s Greatest Heroes and Villains

    Read more
  • Conscious Culture Eater Crosswords: The Golden Age of Video Games

    Read more
  • Conscious Culture Eater Crossword: The Game of Hunger

    Read more
  • Hump Day Crossword: I Survived an Earthquake

    Read more
  • Hump Day Crossword: Might Be One of those Spike Lee Joints

    Read more
PreviousNext
1234567891011

Instagram

👀 👀 👀
Just FYI, if you out here looking for #SmartBae... #SmartBae will be at #SummerSchoolwithDrLane. Will you?
.
Register now! drlanesummerschool.eventbrite.com
.
May 9th
5p-8p
RedRocks H St
.
#blackfeminist #blackprofessor #blackgirlmagic #blackphd #summerschoolwithdrlane #happyhour
Sliding through on #HumpDay to inform you that I practice what I teach (#ratchet)... You should come learn with me at #SummerSchoolwithDrLane
.
Class starts Wed, May 9th at RedRocks H St with a lecture titled "Where My Girls At?" Black Queer Women and the Worlds They Make in DC
.
Register for class at: drlanesummerschool.eventbrite.com
.
#ratchetprofessor #blackprofessor #blackgirlmagic #legsleevetattoo #shortshorts #SummerSchool
Trying to figure out what sorcery Bey using cause I only got one baby and um... #beychella #newmom #howshedothat
We started dating exactly 11 years ago, and we're still dating. And also raising a baby 🦁 together. And also maintaining a home together. And supporting each other to live healthy lives that focus on love and care for each other, our families (of choice and origin), AND ourselves. I LIKE LIKE you a lot @juliepatoolee. Would you be up for dating me for another 11 years?
.
📸 @carlettathegreat
This is me! Believe me. I can't let the day end without acknowledging the ancestor, Maya Angelou.

Her nuggets of wisdom are so simple and profound, they are easy to love and live by. Her poetry is life giving, transformative and timeless. Her "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" was one of the first autobiographies I read and it made me fall in love with the genre.

#mayaangelou
These kids got me tired. All of 'em. I got the 🦁 all day and the 🎓 kids at night. I'm looking forward to the summer time and #SummerSchool because with #SummerSchoolwithDrLane we can have a drink or drank together AND learn.
.
#blackfeminist #blackprofessor #blackgirlmagic #blackphd
Let's connect

Follow me

Crosswords

  • The Purple One: A Crossword TributeJune 25, 2016 - 10:00 am
  • Great Moments in Ratchet History: The CrosswordJune 7, 2016 - 8:20 am
  • Crossword Puzzle: Black Stuff from the 90sMay 4, 2016 - 1:23 am
© Copyright 2017 - Nikki Lane - Enfold WordPress Theme by Kriesi
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Rss
  • Instagram
Scroll to top