Marlon Bailey

Marlon M. Bailey is a professor of gender studies[1][2] and American studies and an adjunct assistant professor of theater and drama. He currently teaches at Arizona State University and is a visiting professor at the University of California, San Francisco, in the Department of Medicine.

Bailey writes and researches in the area of African-American studies.[3] He also has written about LGBT subcultures,[4] and in particular topics which involve both subjects.[5][6]

Bailey is also a director, actor, and performance artist. The most recent play that he acted in was in 2006, The Hard Evidence of existence: a Black Gay Sex (Love Show, directed by Cedric Brown. His most recent Directing was in 2002 Blackness: Perspectives in Color in the Durham Studio, UC-Berkeley.

Publications
  • Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit,[7][8][9] winner of the Alan Bray Memorial book prize. Bailey writes about ballroom culture in Detroit and its role in helping the black LGBT community overcome the challenges of racism, AIDS, homophobia, and poverty.[10]

Journal articles
  • “Engendering Space: Ballroom Culture and the Spatial Practice of Possibility in Detroit”, Gender, Place and Culture: The Journal of Feminist Geography, 2013
  • “Gender/Racial Realness: Theorizing the gender system in ballroom culture,” Race and Transgender Issues: A Special Issue Feminist Studies 37.2, 2011
  • “Performance as Intervention: Ballroom Culture and the Politics of HIV/AIDS in Detroit,” Special Issue of Gender and Sexuality: Souls: a Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, 2009
  • “Reflections on a Conversation with Efua Sutherland: and Artist with a Vision,” Connecticut Review, Vol.XX.1, 1998

Awards
  • Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, 2015
  • Finalist for the Lambda Literary Book Award in LGBT Studies 2014
  • Co-Winner of the Modern Language Association/GLQ Caucus's Compton-Noll Prize for best article in LGBTQ Studies

References
  1. Patricia A. Matthew (3 October 2016). Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure. University of North Carolina Press. pp. 120–. ISBN 978-1-4696-2772-4.
  2. "Ballroom culture is more than a drag". By Kristin Tillotson, Star Tribune, June 26, 2013
  3. Samuel Cruz (2013). Christianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial Approach. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 62–. ISBN 978-0-7391-7675-7.
  4. Stan Hawkins (2015). Queerness in Pop Music: Aesthetics, Gender Norms, and Temporality. Routledge. pp. 244–. ISBN 978-1-317-58971-6.
  5. Tiya Miles (12 August 2015). Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era. University of North Carolina Press. pp. 145–. ISBN 978-1-4696-2634-5.
  6. Jean Muteba Rahier; Percy C. Hintzen; Felipe Smith (2010). Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora. University of Illinois Press. pp. 23–. ISBN 978-0-252-07753-1.
  7. "“Butch Queens Up In Pumps”: House/Ball Culture Today". PQ Monthly, May 20, 2015
  8. Lambda Literary, Reviews: Nonfiction: article “Butch queens up in pumps: Gender Performance and Ballroom Culture in Detroit’ by Marlon M. Bailey” By Chase Dimock. Retrieved March 13, 2015
  9. Dána-Ain Davis; Christa Craven (1 June 2016). Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. pp. 47–. ISBN 978-0-7591-2246-8.
  10. " Exploring "Ballroom Culture" in Detroit". Michigan Radio, Dec 19, 2013
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