Ra Malika Imhotep, ph.d (Ra/They/Them) is a Black feminist writer, performance artist, and cultural worker from Atlanta, GA. They received their Ph.D in African Diaspora Studies and New Media Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and are currently an Assistant Professor of Global African Diaspora Studies at Spelman College. Their work tends to the ways Black feminine figures across the African diaspora subvert preconceived understandings of black womanhood, black femininity, and labor through queer and vernacular aesthetic practice.