"I woke up like this": Desire & Respectability in #ShondaLand

Panel addresses issues around the desirability of Black Women, the importance of sexual desire in the lives of Black Women and the ways tropes of respectability might police Black Women’s identity and expressive culture, with:  Natalie Bullock Brown, Saint Augustine's University (Film and Interactive Media Studies); Joan Morgan, New York University (American Studies);  Treva Lindsey, The Ohio State University (Women and Gender Studies); Lisa B. Thompson, University of Texas at Austin (African & African American Diaspora Studies).  Moderator: Anne-Maria Makhulu, Duke University.

ShondaLand the Symposium was held at Duke University on January 30, 2015 and sponsored by the Forum for Scholars and Publics and the Center for Arts, Digital Culture & Entrepreneurship.