Treva Lindsey


Treva B. Lindsey is an American academic. She is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University and the author of Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington D.C. and America Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and The Struggle for Justice.

Education

Lindsey attended Oberlin College, graduating in 2004, then earned an MA and PhD from Duke University.

Works and awards

Selected publications

  • “F$ck the Grammys: The Conundrum of “Transcending” Race and the Politics of Excellence,” in Culture as Catalyst: Conversations at the Tang Museum to Spark Change, ed. Isolde Brialmier, Tang Teaching Museum, 2020.
  • “The Complicated Struggle for Woman Suffrage: A Scholarly Discussion Guide,” published by the League of Women Voters Ohio, October 2019
  • “King Bey,” Queen Bey: 16 Writers Celebrate the Beauty, Power, and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, New York: Macmillan Publishers, 2019
  • “M4BL and the Critical Matter of Black Lives,” co-written with Brittney Cooper, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Fall 2018, pp. 731-740.
  • “Respectability Politics,” in Gender: Space. Aimee Meredith Cox, ed Part of the Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender series. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2018.
  • “Ain’t Nobody Got Time For That: Anti-Black Girl Violence in the Era of #SayHerName,” A special issue of Urban Education on Urban Youth, Schooling, and Education in the Era of Black Lives Matter, Autumn 2017, pp. 1-14.
  • “Negro Women May Be Dangerous: Black Women’s Insurgent Activism in the Movement for Black Lives,” SOULS Journal September 2017, pp. 1-13.
  • “Why You So Angry?: Serena Williams, Black Girl Pain, and the Pernicious Power of Stereotypes,” in Between the World and the Urban Classrooms, eds. Christopher Emdin and George Sirrakos, Jr., Sense Publishers, April 2017