We're thrilled to be back after our mid-season break! In this week's episode, we're joined by Lauren McLeod Cramer and Nataleah Hunter-Young for a thoughtful, playful and generous conversation about Black popular culture, mentorship, and much more!
Lauren McLeod Cramer is an Assistant Professor in the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Lauren is also a founding member of liquid blackness, a research project on blackness and aesthetics and the co-Editor of liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies. Her work focuses on the aesthetics of blackness and popular culture, and she is currently writing a book on hip-hop visual culture and black spatial practice.
Nataleah Hunter-Young is a writer, film curator, and Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Black Studies at Queen’s University. She is also a PhD candidate in Communication and Culture at Toronto Metropolitan University and York University and an international programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Her doctoral research considers the social and cultural impacts of social media videos documenting anti-Black police brutality through the discursive interpretations of three Black visual artists in Canada, the USA, and South Africa.