Ozichi Okorom

Topics: Black feminist theory and performance, Black diasporic visual cultures, queer of color critique, media studies, digital and technology studies, critical/antihumanism

M.A., African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin 

B.A., African American Studies, Princeton University 

Ozichi Okorom is an arts writer and PhD student in the Departments of African American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research and creative practice engage performance and visual culture to explore the precarity of the black femme in digital space and posthumanist discourse. Her master’s thesis, Robot got future, I don’t, analyzes contemporary R&B artist SZA’s performance, lyricism, production, and public reception to assert that the figure of the disavowed and dispossessed black femme is the bedrock of social-digital space and human progress. In addition to her research, she has worked as a museum education fellow at the Blanton Museum of Art, and is a research assistant for the Cite Black Women Collective. At Yale, Ozichi plans to deepen her work in black femme performance and technology through engaging digital archiving, curatorial practice, and arts-making as important sites for black studies inquiry and knowledge production.  

Combined Ph.D with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies