Kemi Adeyemi is a project editor at Crosscut, where she contributes to the Black Arts Legacies project. She is also associate professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, where she founded and directs The Black Embodiments Studio, an arts writing incubator and public programming initiative that builds discourse around contemporary black art. Her book Feels Right: Black Queer Women & the Politics of Partying in Chicago is forthcoming from Duke University Press in September 2022, and she co-edited the volume Queer Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2021).
