Marlon M. Bailey

Professor, African and African American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies, Fall 2022 | Marlon M. Bailey is a Black queer theorist and critical/performance ethnographer who studies Black LGBTQ cultural formations, sexual health, and HIV/AIDS prevention. Marlon’s book, Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2013. In 2014, Butch Queens Up in Pumps won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize awarded by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association. Dr. Bailey has published widely on Black LGBT cultures, HIV prevention, and sexual health in peer reviewed journals and edited volumes. He holds a PhD in African Diaspora Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality from the University of California, Berkeley.