M. Shadee Malaklou is a critical race, gender, and sexuality studies scholar with expertise in Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks (1952). Her writings intervene in Enlightenment humanism’s racist metric of time, querying sex and gender as visual markers of historical-racial difference. She dives deep into the philosophies of Man, finding that racial blackness has been written into the historical record as the human’s antecedent and Other, made relevant only as the constant against which human movements
In addition to writing for academic journals, she regularly publishes think pieces, most recently, in The Conversationalist , The Feminist Wire , and CounterPunch ; and periodically contributes to Always Already: A Critical Theory Podcast as the Frantz Fanon correspondent. Prior to joining Berea College as the Inaugural Director and founder of the bell hooks center and Chair and (at the time) Assistant Professor of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department , Malaklou served as Assistant Professo