Dr Kadian Pow is a Jamaican American ex-pat anthropologist-cum-sociologist living in Britain. She is a lecturer in Sociology and Black Studies at Birmingham City University’s School of Social Sciences. She has been published in three critical volumes: The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence (2018); Gladiators in Suits: Race, Gender and the Politics of Representation in Scandal (2019); and A Fan Studies Primer: Method, Research and Ethics (2021).
Dr. Pow's areas of interest include popular culture, television, social media and fan studies, the socio-political nature of Black hair, and Black feminism(s). She is also the founder and Managing Director for Bourn Beautiful Naturals, which makes solutions-based products for Afro textured hair and sensitive skin.
Experience
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2021–presentDr. Kadian Pow, Birmingham City University
Publications
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2023(forthcoming) Stories of Black Female Identity in the Making: Queering the Love in Blackness, Lived Places Publishing
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2022"Intersectional Blackness and Curatorial Poaching on Tumblr", Blackness at the Intersection: Intersectionality and the Black Diaspora
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2021"Scandalous Black Feminine Gaze(s): Critically Engaged Ethnography and Intersectional Fan Praxis on Tumblr, Fan Studies: Method, Research, Ethics
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2019"Insider/Outsider: Olivia Pope and teh Pursuit of The Erotic", Gladiators In Suits: Race,Gender, and The Politics of Representation in Scandal
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2018"'Be Exactly Who You Are': Black Feminism in Volatile Political Realities", The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence
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