Cathy Cohen: The Quiet Storm Scholar That Queer Theory Needed

L. H. Stallings is professor of women’s studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of Mutha Is Half a Word! Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (Ohio State University Press, 2007). Her second book, Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures (University of Illinois Press, 2015), explores how black sexual cultures produce radical ideologies about labor, community, art, and sexuality. It has received the Alan Bray Memorial Award from the MLA GL/Q Caucus and the 2016 Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Women’s Studies from the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA). It was also a 2016 finalist for the Twenty-Eighth Annual Lambda Literary Awards for LGBT studies.