Khyree Davis PhD candidate, University of Texas at Austin

Khyree Davis is a PhD candidate in African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research specializations are in Black queer & trans studies, Black geographies/geopolitics, and performance studies. His dissertation research explores Black trans and queer geographies, examining how Black trans and queer performances operate as social-spatial theories and strategies which interrogate, navigate, and remap geographies of domination. He is currently completing his dissertation as a fellow for the Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies (BBQ+). His article, "Transnational Blackness at Toronto Pride: Queer Disruption as Theory and Method," was recently published in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. A Black queer southerner, born and raised, outside of research he is also a home cook and a rising (slowly) poet.