Deandre Miles-Hercules

<p dir="ltr"><em>“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. That the speaking profits me, beyond any other effect.” – Audre Lorde</em></p>

<p dir="ltr"><em>This project investigates how Black femmes draw upon semiotic resources in the service of identity construction within textured - racialized and gendered - linguistic terrain. Talking back to the cool young brotha trope in the scientific study of language, this work intercedes at the intersections through qualitative multimodal analyses of Black femmes' interview discourse around education and identity.</em></p>