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LaVelle Ridley | Black Trans Futures Against Carceral Dystopias
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Presented by The Department of Black Studies, Department of Feminist Studies, and Center for Feminist Futures
LaVelle Ridley is a 2023-2024 President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies working with Professor Eric Stanley at UC Berkeley. Dr. Ridley is a queer black transsexual writer and mentor whose interests emerge from the intersection of transgender studies, black feminist theory, and life-writing studies. She earned her Ph.D. in English and Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Michigan.