She earned her Ph.D. in Languages, Literacies, and Cultures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She researches and teaches at the intersections of race and gender, sexuality, class, spirituality, and eroticism. She is working on a manuscript about 20th and 21st century Queer Black femme and non-binary media formations and everyday archive creations via singing and songwriting, storytelling, dancing, filmmaking, space making, protesting, conjuring, ignoring, healing, and remembering