Specialization

Black Feminisms, Black Queer Studies, Black Trans Studies, Feminist Sports Studies

Education

BA—Hamilton College, Literature and Women’s and Gender Studies (2019)

MA—DePaul University, Women’s and Gender Studies (2022)

Bio

Kendall (she/they) is a Feminist Studies PhD Candidate and Racial Justice Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They specialize in Black feminisms, Black queer and trans studies, and feminist sports studies. Her research focuses on the self-representation, space-making, aesthetics, and resistance of Black queer and trans athletes in the Women’s National Basketball Association.

Specifically, they focus on the ways that these athletes create individual and communal spaces and counternarratives through the use of social media, aesthetic practices, and on and off court acts of resistance to misogynoir, heteronormativity, and, for some athletes, gender altogether. She examines how Black queer athletes create spaces of community, joy, and resistance within the larger sports sphere through their self-representation, racialized and gendered performances, and other forms of Black queer cultural production.

In addition to their research, they are a consultant for collegiate athletic departments.