Queer of Color Critique and Missing Black Geographies

Dr. Aaron Mallory from ASU (title of their talk: “Queer of Color Critique and Missing Black Geographies”).

Dr. Aaron Mallory is an Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Aaron received their PhD in Geography from the University of Minnesota.

Aaron’s research is concerned Black spatial production, Black Queer Health, and Black feminist knowledge production. Their research focuses on the ways Black communities are written out of places, spaces and landscapes and attempts to bring Black hidden or missing spatial contributions into view.

Aaron is currently working on uncovering the missing geographies of Black communities in the United States South. Central to this work are the hidden sites of Black community formations that are under documented but are central to the geographies of the South. This work explores the impact of what they theorize as a Black “present - absence” in government archives, landscapes, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Aaron is a Queer, Ex-Punk, Former Lover who holds a B.A. in Political Economy from the Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington.