Join the AAPHI Program (African American Public Humanities Initiative) for our Fall Speaker, Dr. Dominque C. Hill.  A lover, poet, guide, and interdisciplinary scholar creative. Hill’s written and performed scholarship traces the living edges of Black girlhood and Blackqueer intimacies. Zo’s work explores how lived experience and creative practice become methods of theorizing, illuminating feeling, form, and relation as sites of knowing, worldmaking, and transformation. Storied by elders as “dancing before she could walk, '' and raised by three generations of womn who know the power of prayer, girls’ night out, and a strong work ethic, she is inspired by Black social dance, everyday artful living, poetry, and queer configurations of family. Fluent in critical interiority, narrative craft, and embodied practice, zo illuminates the creative and enduring practices of Black survival. Hill is the author of three books, including the recent Black Gurl Reliable and extends the field of Black Girlhood Studies as an assistant professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Colgate University.  

Monday, November 3, 2025