About Me

Joshua K. Reason (they/them) is a transdisciplinary scholar-artist from the Bay Area. Their work details Black : Indigenous performing and visual arts in the Americas as rehearsals for freedom beyond the limitations of modernity. Through ethnography, performance studies, cultural studies, and geography, they write and create towards new grammars for sexuality, intimacy, desire, and erotics. Their book project, tentatively titled After Dark: Sexual Ecologies of North-Northeast Brazil, is a multimodal ethnography of Black : Indigenous LGBTQIA+ artists whose creative practices intervene in (neo)colonialism, sexual conservatism, and climate catastrophe. Their work has been published in The Black Scholar, The Journal of American Culture, The Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships, and becoming undisciplined: a zine.

Joshua is currently an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at San Francisco State University. They received their PhD in Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. They also received their Master of Arts in Latin American Studies (with a portfolio in LGBTQ Studies) from The University of Texas at Austin, as well as their Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies (with a certificate of advanced study in Spanish) from Carleton College. Their work has been generously supported by the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship and Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship.