the intellectual + creative work of Ra/Malika Imhotep, ph.d, tends to the relationships between queer embodiment, Black femininity, vernacular arts, & the performance of labor.

Ra/Malika is co-convener of an embodied spiritual-political education project called The Church of Black Feminist Thought, a member of The Black Aesthetic

& the proud child of D. Makeda Johnson and Akbar Imhotep.

core commitments: Black feminism, Disability Justice, Black vernacular culture, Black feminist performance, Dirty South Epistemologies, Black Queer lifeworlds, Afro-Diasporic networks, Poetics, Tenderness, Compassion, black study, Liberation from ALL systems of oppression + domination

an obiligatory note on gender: Ra/Malika Imhotep identifies as an agender black femme in deep and principled relationship to blk wimmin, black [trans + cis] women, and gender-non-conforming Black femmes. Ra/Malika prefers not to be referred to using gendered pronouns but for the sake of legibility and conversational ease Ra/Malika responds to the pronouns “ra,” “they/them,” and “doll” [and “she/her” in cases of emergency].