Akweley Mazarae Lartey | he/xe/dey
African American Studies - Doctoral Student
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akweley.ma.lartey@berkeley.edu
Akweley Mazarae Lartey (he/xe/dey) is a doctoral student in the Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies at UC Berkeley. Deir research interests span Black queer and trans studies, kinship studies, deaf studies, and storytelling. As a hard-of-hearing second-generation Ghanaian American and African American, xe is interested in exploring silences in archives, particularly for Black gender-expansive people and Black Deaf families, and how histories are passed down from various modes of storytelling.
A Black queer jawn originally from the Greater Philadelphia Area, Akweley Mazarae can usually be found reading and writing about Blackness, gender, disability, and aromanticism or watching superhero shows. He earned a B.A. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and a Certificate in Education Studies from Yale University.