I’m a communications designer, curious creative, and humanistic thinker originally from Alabama.
I am the creator of the CFBS Podcast, which explores the intersectionality of the experience of millennial women of the African Diaspora millennial. Topics include the discovery of a woman’s own sexuality and sexual expression through pop culture and society (i.e. religion, culture, etc.).
I’ve studied in Alabama (University of Alabama, December 2016), California, and New York (Pratt Institute, May 2020), and have traveled to Japan and throughout the United States.
I have enjoyed partnerships involving brand identity and designing for social impact and media. Some of the most interesting projects to me have promoted diversity, education, and human-centered concepts (e.g., sexuality, sociology, interactions, women, minorities, and cultures around the world).
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CBFS Podcast
Reason
The case study follows the idea that pop culture, i.e., social media and streaming television shows, wants to be inclusive, but it can’t. It falls back on the old traditions (sexism, religion) of stereotypes. If media perpetuates stereotypes, then how do black women become more than their stereotypes…by sharing their/our voices so that other black millennial women know that they are not alone in this open yet repressed culture. CBFS Podcast talks to black millennial women from a range of sexual identities to hopefully give a voice to unrecognized forms of black female sexuality and give additional viewpoints to ones that pop culture continues to stereotype.
Position
Graphic Designer
Social Media Manager
UI Designer/Visual Designer
Podcast Host
Motion Designer
Audience
Millennial age black women
Allies
Tools
Adobe
After Effects
Audition
Illustrator
Photoshop
XD
Others
Audacity
Quicktime
Sound Recorder (app)
Later (app)
Instagram (app)
YouTube
Research (more on case study website)
Books
EX: Longing to Tell By Tricia Rose | “Guide to the Asexual Community Survey Data” by Tristian Miller | Black Looks: Race and Representation by Bell Hooks | Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya U. Noble
Media
TV/Movie EX: Gone With the Wind | The Cosby Show | Living Single | The L Word | Chewing Gum, Shameless U.S. | Empire
Social EX: Google | Youtube - Jouelzy | Shan Boody | Whoreible Decisions | Instagram
Print EX: JET Magazine, Ebony Magazine
Plan of Action
The Chronicles of Black Female Sexuality (CFBS) Podcast focuses on black female sexuality, specifically the commodification and stereotyping of black women for the millennial generation. This installment consists of 6 episodes from black women of various sexual identities and backgrounds. Each interviewee answers about 5 or more questions depending on the direction of the interview. The episodes range from 15-45 minutes due to its conversational nature.
CBFS
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PODCAST QUESTIONS
Do you express your sexuality differently online and offline?
Who is your sexual icon? Why?
Do you have a black sexuality icon? Who and why?
When did you start to see your sexual identity reflected in media? What did you think about it?
What role does pop culture/ white culture play in how you view your black sexuality?
HASHTAGS
#cbfs #chroniclesofblackfemalesexuality #blackfemale #blackfemalesexuality #sexuality #femalesexuality #mediacriticism #starttheconversation #thesis #gradthesis
#selfdiscovery #cbfs_podcast
