Philesha Colquitt

Phil Colquitt is a Ph.D. student in Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. She hails from the South, where the sweet tea is sweet, and you don’t sweep over folks’ feet. Her interdisciplinary research engages with Black Women’s Studies, Black Feminist Anthropology, Black Queer Studies, Southern Studies, and Rural Studies. Phil’s work explores Black Queer subjectivity and world-making in the Rural South. She examines identity formations, naming practices, private dealings, and rurality as a site for Queer futurities for Black Queer folks. Furthermore, Phil has written works utilizing Black literature as a site of interruption and (im)possibilities. She uses decolonial methods, such as zine-making, autoethnography, and poetry, to disrupt hegemonic thought and ideals and situate her work within a Black feminist tradition of “theorizing from the flesh.”