Dartmouth Events

This event concludes our 2025 IBICL Winter/Spring Speaker Series. The theme this year is Black Music/Black Life. 

From the presenter: 

    This talk explores the messy theorizing occurring in the collaboration between the strip club and Black women in hip-hop. I situate the celebration and attention to the dismemberments of the Black female body to tongues, buttocks, knees, etc., occurring in contemporary Black Southern women’s hip-hop that takes on – and collaborates with – strip club dancer aesthetics and performances. By naming fantasy as a means of describing the everyday, yet excessive, maintenance of Black feminist thinking in the U.S. Black South, this talk will play with the blurry boundaries of body, hip-hop, and strip club, forming Black feminist sound today.

About the presenter:

     Endia Hayes is a scholar of what she describes as Black feminist sensory cultural study, a set of inquiries traversing the fields of cultural, Black, gender and sexuality studies alongside sociology. Dr. Hayes earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Rutgers University and is currently the 2024-2025 Thurgood Marshall Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College. Her writing has appeared in journals such as The Black Scholar, Literature and Medicine, Southern Cultures, and Gastronomica alongside pivotal anthologies like Black Feminist Sociology and Black Women and Da 'Rona. She has held fellowships with The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies and the Global Black Feminisms Summer Lab, among others.