Pembroke Center

monaye johnson (she/they) is a curator and doctoral student in Africana Studies whose work examines the affective, psychic, and grammatical structures that shape Black gendered life. Drawing on Black feminist theory, psycho-affective analytics, and the intellectual legacy of thinkers such as Hortense Spillers and June Jordan, her/their research explores how desire, touch, and patriarchy operate within and beyond the afterlife of slavery. She has delivered invited talks and lectures at Harvard, Yale, The New School, and international convenings on Black feminism, care ethics, and reproductive justice. At Brown, she is a Mae Williamson Simmons Fellow, and her broader work spans public scholarship, political education, and organizing. monaye holds a B.A. in Gender Studies and Psychology, and an M.A in Gender Studies.