Specialization

Black, queer, feminist theories; Sex, Sexualities, Erotics, and Sex Work; Black Diasporic Religions; Southern Studies

Education

BA—Psychology, Sociology Concentration, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, 2015

MA—Sociology, Thesis: “We Don’t Love These Hoes: Exploring Misogynoir and Black Male Patriarchy Through Sexual Double Standards”, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, May 2017

Bio

Mariah Webber, M.A. is a writer, educator, artist, poet, diviner & descendant of southern sharecroppers born and raised in Waco, North Carolina. She received a bachelor’s in Psychology from Appalachian State University in 2015 and a Master’s in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2017. Currently, Mariah is a fourth-year doctoral student of feminist studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara as a Eugene Cota-Robles scholar. Mariah believes that freedom does not lie within the academy however, she is often curious about the exploration of black erotics, spiritualities, stylistic technologies, and intracommunal methods of healing through the lense of womanism and black queer feminisms. Mariah’s work has been published in Sistories: A Literary Magazine (2019, 2021) and Becoming Undisciplined (2019).