Joshua Reason
( They/Them/Theirs )Dr. Joshua K. Reason (they/them) is a transdisciplinary, multimodal scholar-artist from the Bay Area. Their research and creative work are rooted in a fervent commitment to connecting the aesthetics, longings, and political strivings of Black communities across the Americas. Their work has been published in The Black Scholar, The Journal of American Culture, The Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships, and becoming undisciplined: a zine.
Dr. Reason is also producing Brazil After Dark, a documentary about Black : Indigenous LGBTQIAPN+ artist in Northern-Northeastern Brazil. As a recipient of the inaugural Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship, they traveled to eight different states in the region and interviewed over twenty artists. This project is an ongoing collaboration with Coletivo das Liliths (Collective of Liliths), an LGBTQIAPN+ theater group that aims to share the stories of those––past and present––at the racial, gender, sexual, and geographic margins of Brazilian society.
Dr. Reason earned their PhD in Africana Studies with a certificate in Critical Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania. They earned their MA in Latin American Studies with a graduate portfolio in LGBTQ Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and their BA in Latin American Studies at Carleton College.