Ra Malika Imhotep

Person wearing glasses in an off-the-shoulder gown leans against a large tree trunk in a black-and-white portrait.
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2023 Flash Reading Series

Spring 2022 Flash Reading #43: Ra Malika Imhotep

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Creative Writing topic page, Performance topic page, Scholar topic page, Activism topic page
Job title: 
Black Feminist Writer, Performance Artist, and PhD Candidate of African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley
Bio/CV: 

Ra Malika Imhotep gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2022, part of the Spring 2022 Flash Reading Series.

Ra Malika Imhotep is a Black feminist writer and performance artist from Atlanta, Georgia currently pursuing a doctoral degree in African Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley with a Designated Emphasis in New Media. Their academic and creative work tends the relationships between Black femininity, Southern vernacular aesthetics, and the performance of labor.  They are a co-convener of the embodied spiritual-political education project, The Church of Black Feminist Thought and a member of the curatorial collective, The Black Aesthetic.

Role: 
Flash Reader