Where Are Black Girls Safe?

In this interactive talk focusing on her most recent book Black Girls and How We Fail Them, award-winning scholar Dr. Aria S. Halliday will highlight commonalities in popular streaming platform films and television to consider how Black girls are represented and how they respond.

This talk promises to pique your interest in cultural studies, girlhood studies, and media literacy.

Monday, April 6 from 4:30-6:30 P.M.
Dinner served. Free event!

Speaker: Dr. Aria S. Halliday is an award-winning author who specializes in the study of cultural constructions of black girlhood and womanhood in material, visual, and digital culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. She engages broad interdisciplinary interests in girlhood, Black feminism, radicalism, consumerism, and performance in Black popular culture in the United States and the Caribbean. Currently, she is the Marie Rich Endowed Professor in Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and program in African American and Africana Studiesat the University of Kentucky. 

Graduate Student Moderator: Courtney Cook has an M.S. in Nonprofit Management from The New School, and an M.A. in Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park.  Cook has taught at several universities in the region.  She is currently a PhD student in the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers-Camden University. Cook’s research focuses on the intersections of Black Girlhood, film aesthetics, and methods for the de-adultification of Black girls.