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Grace Gipson on Humanizing the Black Experience

16 Nov, 2021

Grace Gipson on Humanizing the Black Experience

BCNM alum Grace Gipson gave a lecture about representations of the Black experience for the Freedom School 3.0 lecture series.

From the lecture description:

This compelling lecture examines the cultural and socio-political impact of authentic representations of the lived Black experience on television.

Dr. Gipson is a Black future feminist/pop culture scholar whose research explores Black popular culture, digital humanities, representations of race and gender within comic books, Afrofuturism, and race and new media. Her current book project seeks to explore Black female identities as personified in comics and fandom culture.

Check out the full lecture here!