Reading Series - Lynnée Denise
The Creative Writing Reading Series is proud to host Lynnée Denise for a public reading and discussion. All are welcome!
A global practitioner of sound, language, and Black Atlantic thought, Lynnée Denise is an Amsterdam-based writer and interdisciplinary artist from Los Angeles, California. Shaped by her parent's record collection and the 1980s, Denise's work traces and foregrounds the intimacies of underground nightclub movements, music migration, and bass culture in the African Diaspora. A doctoral student in the Department of Visual Culture at the Goldsmiths University of London, Denise's research contends with how iterations of sound system culture construct a living archive and refuge for a Black queer diaspora. Her debut book, Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters (the University of Texas Press), is a narrative journey of reclamation that intricately details and humanizes the full life, musical contributions, and cultural impact of Willie Mae Thornton.
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