My transnational feminist cultural studies scholarship focuses on mixed race, gender and sexuality in the African Diaspora. Across my various publications I have written about visual representations of mixed race, Black girlhood, feminist ethnography, colorism and anti-blackness, films of the African diaspora, and much more.
“Magaly Pineda’s Feminist ‘Agenda Digital’: A Movement for Girls Education in Tech in the Dominican Republic” Caudal: Rasanblaj of Contemporary Feminist & Queer/Cuir Perspectives on Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, CENTRO Journal (v. 36, n. 2) special issue. Summer.
Co-author with Maurine Ogbaa. ”Public Scholarship as B(l)ack Talk: African Feminist Collaborations in the Academy and Online” Ch. 3 in Global Black Feminism: Cross Border Collaboration Through an Ethics of Care, eds. Andrea Baldwin and Tonya Haynes, 2023.
“Say, Who’s Online? South Asian Feminist Methodologies in Texas Building Digital Futures” in Decolonial Feminist Futures Genealogies & Futures, Guest contributors, Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Carty University of Illinois Press. 2023.
“La Reina de la Fusión: Xiomara Fortuna Coming of Age in the Dominican Republic,” Meridians Journal (Vol. 21.1). 2022.
Afi is for Us!” in Sinister Wisdom a Special Issue on Conditions: a magazine of writing for women with an emphasis on writing by lesbians, eds. Cheryl Clarke, Julie Enszer, and Shromona Mandal. (Winter, No. 123), 201-207. 2022.
“Writing Black Women’s Reproductive Lives” in Black Perspectives, peer reviewed blog of the African American Intellectual History Society. August 24, 2022.
“Documents & Dwellings” catalog essay, for photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley’s solo exhibition at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Summer 2022.
“Africa is everywhere” Burlington Contemporary Reviews/Exhibition,
November 11th, 2020.
“In Praise of Lorgian Margin” on Ethnic Studies Rise. eds. Raj Chetty and Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann. December 2019.
“Spinning the Zoetrope: Visualizing the Mixed-Race Body of Dominican Actress Zoe Saldaña” in Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture (2019) 1 (3): 44–59.
“Dominican Pride and Shame: Gender, Race and LGBT Activism in Santo Domingo” in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 56 (Vol. 22, No. 2), 128-43. 2018.
“El rostro negro dominicano y la Quisqueya queer de Rita Indiana Hernández” in NUESTRO CARIBE. Poder, Raza y Postnacionalismos para dinamitar el archipiélago LGBTQ, ed. Mabel Cuesta. Editorial Isla Negra, Puerto Rico. 2016.
“‘No tienes que entenderlo, solo respetalo’: Xiomara Fortuna, Racism, Feminism and Other Forces in the Dominican Republic” in The Black Scholar (Vol. 45, No. 3). 2015.
“This Bridge Called the Internet: Black Lesbian Feminist Organizing in Santo Domingo” in Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the African Diaspora, eds. Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Cheryl R. Rodriguez, and Dzodzi Tsikata. Lexington Books. 2015.
Co-Author with Dr. Salamishah Tillet. “Unveiling the Silence: NO! The Rape Documentary Study Guide”. Afrolez Productions, LLC. 2010.
“The Combination of the Two,” in Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out, eds. Adebe DeRango-Adem and Andrea Thompson, pp. 133-137. Toronto, ON: Inanna Publications and Education Inc. 2010.
Please contact me if you are having any difficulty obtaining a copy of any of my writing not linked below. Many pdfs of publications are available via academia.edu.
Rachel Afi Quinn 