Ep. 59 DuEwa interviewed Dr. Aria S. Halliday about her latest book, Black Girls and How We Fail Them. Visit www.AriaSHalliday.comfor more information.Follow Nerdacity @nerdacityarts on Instagramand X.com @nerdacitypod1Visit DuEwa's website at DuEwaWorld.comBioAria S. Halliday, Ph.D. holds the Marie Rich Endowed Professorship and is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and in African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Halliday is known for her research on the cultural constructions of black girlhood and womanhood in material, visual, and digital culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. She engages broad interdisciplinary interests in Black feminism, art, and performance in Black popular culture in the United States and the Caribbean. Her research is featured in Cultural Studies, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Girlhood Studies, Palimpsest, and SOULS. Her article, “Twerk Sumn!: Theorizing Black Girl Epistemology in the Body” won the 2021 Stuart Hall Foundation x Cultural Studies Award. Her latest book is Black Girls and How We Fail Them published by @UNCPress.

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