Kemi Adeyemi is Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Feels Right: Black Queer Women & the Politics of Partying in Chicago (Duke University Press, 2022) and co-editor of the volume Queer Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2021). Her recent writing has appeared in GLQ, Women & Performance, Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies, Routledge Companion to African American Art History, and elsewhere.

Kemi founded and directs The Black Embodiments Studio, an arts writing incubator, public programming initiative, and publishing platform dedicated to building discourse around contemporary black art.

MEDIA

Adeyemi, Kemi. Feels Right : Black Queer Women and the Politics of Partying in Chicago. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.

• Momus: The Podcast. A conversation between writer, art critic, and co-founder of ARTS.BLACK, Jessica Lynne, and Dr. Kemi Adeyemi.
• Kemi Adeyemi | Interviews from Yale University Radio WYBCX.
• Kemi Adeyemi and Kareem Khubchandani in conversation with Margot Weiss about Queer Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2021)