Overview
A. Kamau Pope is a historian, “dirt road academic,” and storysharer from South Carolina. Currently a doctoral candidate in History at Duke University, Kamau’s work explores the resistance and resilience of queer and trans Southerners by tracing their activism and community organizing.
With their own roots in community organizing, academia, and oral history, Kamau’s work lives on in town halls, on front porches, and within the archive, aiming to connect scholarly work and everyday conversation. Across the range of their work, Kamau has a deep investment in continuing the legacy of the Black Southern tradition that sees the South as a place of memory, struggle, and possibility.