Featuring...Presence in Absence: Finding Black Women’s Performance in the Forged Break (SCMS 2022)

Consider coming to PANEL 03 (Saturday, April 2, 5-6:45 pm), with our new co-chair Adrien Sebro! Here's a word from Adrien about what to expect:

The collective panel, Presence in Absence: Finding Black Women’s Performance in the Forged Break, is crucial to seeing comedy and humor studies in a Black media studies context. Focusing particularly on Black women entertainers and their comedic performances in stand-up, television, and film, this panel will survey various ways that humor is conjured through the specific word play, politics, and bodily movement of Black women.