Scholars@Duke
Nikki Lane

Nikki Lane

Assistant Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
nikki.lane@duke.edu
1304 Campus Dr, Box 90760, Durham, NC 27708
1304 Campus Dr, Box 90760, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

:There’s a Disco Ball between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life

Journal Article Transforming Anthropology · April 1, 2024 Full text Cite

Megan Thee Stallion sings the blues: Black queer theory and intersectionality

Chapter · December 2022 This accessibly written collection is essential reading for students, teachers, and researchers working in Women's and Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies, African American Studies, Sociology, Politics and other related subjects from across ... ... Cite

Ratchet Black Lives Matter: Megan Thee Stallion, Intra-Racial Violence, and the Elusion of Grief

Journal Article Journal of Linguistic Anthropology · August 1, 2021 In July 2020, Megan Thee Stallion was shot. The vitriol directed towards her represented the ways certain kinds of Black women’s bodies do not effectively garner collective forms of grief, or the public expression of empathy toward someone who experiences ... Full text Cite

The Black Queer Work of Ratchet Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the (Anti)Politics of Respectability

Book · December 9, 2019 This book enters as a corrective to the tendency to trivialize and (mis)appropriate African American language practices. ... Cite

Narratives of affect

Journal Article Journal of Language and Sexuality · February 22, 2018 AbstractExtending the work of those who center narratives in their discussions of affect, this essay considers black queer women’s (BQW) narratives describing the sensations associated with being in and out ... Full text Cite

All the Lesbians are White, All the Villages are Gay, but Some of Us are Brave: Intersectionality, Modernity, and Black Queer Women’s Scene Space in Washington, D.C.

Chapter · 2015 Gill Valentine (2007), Natalie Oswin (2008) and Yvette Taylor (2011) challenge feminist and critical geographies to engage intersectional analysis in theoretical and empirical studies of sexualised spaces; to deal with the way race, gender, and class are m ... Cite

Black women queering the mic: Missy Elliott disturbing the boundaries of racialized sexuality and gender.

Journal Article Journal of homosexuality · July 2011 Though there were and always have been djs, dancers, graffiti artists, and rappers who were Black women, they are placed on the periphery of hip-hop culture; their voices, along with "gay rappers" and "white rappers" devalued and their contribution to the ... Full text Cite