Ayanna Dozier

This weekend I had the pleasure of screening "Revelations of Divine Love" for the esteemed scholars of the International Anchoritic Society & Early Middle English conference at Brandeis! Believe me folks, there is no tougher room than one filled with medievalists! And they dug it!!

I’ll lead a listening exercise/lecture on Blk women’s sonic sensualities & sufferings at Wendy’s Subway (9/18). I’ll talk about my new manuscript on Blk sx workers’ influence in music culture/honor the 5th anniversary of my book on Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope
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Episode 5 Pt. II - Make Batman Gay Again with Ayanna Dozier Scholar, curator, artist, and Batman expert Ayanna Dozier, Ph.D., joins us to talk about the Caped Crusader and queer comic history.

And/or you can hear me yap for almost two hours on the Screen Slate podcast below. Both, like Batman & Robin, are good fun!

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Batman of the 1990s (or, Batman Needs an Enema!) Batman needs an enema! One only has to take a cursory look through police department Facebook pages to see Batmanphilia in full effect, with particular emphasis on the Christopher Nolan and Zack Snyde...

I will be at the 8PM showing. And for those who want more background on queerness in Batman, you can read my essay on 1990s Batman cinema on Screen Slate.

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Batman & Robin (1997) — Low Cinema A stunning ensemble cast — George Clooney, Chris O’Donnell, Alicia Silverstone, Uma Thurman, Arnold Schwarzenegger — star in easily the most maligned film in the Caped Crusader canon. While it was...

tonight (July 29th) I will introduce Batman & Robin, one of my favorite films, at Low Cinema in Ridgewood. I’ll briefly speak on how Schumacher cites and extends on queer cinema of both Pre and Post code Hollywood. Come out, if only for the A/C, lol.

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Connexions Françaises: Caroline Golum at FIDMarseille 2025 For nearly four decades now, the Cote d’Azur’s foremost festival of experimentation has occupied a cherished niche in the international avant garde filmmaking community. Just down the road a spell fro...

"Hey Caroline, how'd it go with the World Premiere of 'Revelations of Divine Love' at FIDMarseille?"

Your burning question, ANSWERED, over at
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I wrote about erotics & process in the work of Paul Mpagi Sepuya for Family Style Magazine. I’m not really into writing art profiles anymore but this was an exception as a photographer I want to be able to be able to dig into process with other photographers.

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This is exactly why people who labor in the s3xual ec0nomy are isolated, harmed or worse, m*rdered.

Said differently, wh0res cannot actually be r*ped or violated. That’s what that ruling just determined.

Anti-Blackness performed a work within this case.

This case pretty much said Cassie and the Jane Doe are pr0stitutes so therefore they were participants in their own violation and undoing.

That conflation between s3x w0rk and prostitution is how we get here. This where the whore disfigure enters.

For the last six years, I have sat with this work and can share that “The pornographer and the party” has officially been published by Women & Performance journal.
Rest in Peace to Kenneka Jenkins 🤍.

#blackstudies

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Sex Workers Deserve a New Story The films of Ayanna Dozier reclaim the stigmatised figure of the ‘whore’ to portray sexual labour as neither a feminist gesture nor an exploitative trap

(5/5) "Though [Ayanna Dozier's] exploration of...the psychosexual trappings of evangelism and the suppression of libidinal desires by belief systems is playful, the link between sex and religion are... explicit: ‘Both acts of submission required me to be on my knees.’"

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Sex Workers Deserve a New Story The films of Ayanna Dozier reclaim the stigmatised figure of the ‘whore’ to portray sexual labour as neither a feminist gesture nor an exploitative trap

The films of Ayanna Dozier reclaim the stigmatised figure of the ‘whore’ to portray sexual labour as neither a feminist gesture nor an exploitative trap artreview.com/sex-workers-...

Sex Workers Deserve a New Story The films of Ayanna Dozier reclaim the stigmatised figure of the ‘whore’ to portray sexual labour as neither a feminist gesture nor an exploitative trap

A great essay by Sophia Satchell-Baeza on my film, writing, and visual art practice on sex work is up on ArtReview. It’s the first long form review of my work to ever be published in an arts journal/magazine so this means a lot. Give it a read: artreview.com/sex-workers-...

Of course, she is notable for standing firmly in her racism as expressed in Against Our Will and believing that the history of lynching was one way in which people tried to “correct” the widespread problem of rape. Honestly, as a scholar, it is my mission that her work dies with her.

Her anti sex work drivel caused serious harm to workers and created and perpetuated the carceral rhetoric of imprisoning workers to “rehabilitate” them. Of course in her latter years her rhetoric opened the door for transphobia and even in the last decade became a staunch rape victim blamer.

we will NOT be rehabilitating Brownmiller on my watch. Her discourse on rape participates and codifies colonial “common sense” fascist narratives on race and gender essentialism that decry cis white women as a protected class that becomes the cult of “true” femininity.

• Ayanna Dozier: Installation Views Ayanna Dozier Installation Views

Installation views of my solo exhibition, Get on Your Knees, Jesus Loves You are now available. The exhibition is on view through May 31st at Microscope Gallery. This Friday (5/16) at 7PM, I will be in conversation with curator Jesse Firestone about the show.

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Yayyyyyyy!!! You’re here!!!!!!!! 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

@dozierayanna.bsky.social 's "Forgetting You is Like Breathing Water", which I play opposite the @cleoouyang.bsky.social, premieres Thursday at The Walker Museum in Minneapolis. Check out this interview with Ayanna in anticipation of the exhibition of her work.
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• Ayanna Dozier: Get on Your Knees, Jesus Loves You Ayanna Dozier Get on Your Knees, Jesus Loves You April 24 – May 31, 2025 Opening Reception Thursday April 24, 6-8pmStill from: “Whore in the House of the Lord” (2025), by Ayanna Dozier, 16mm film, 11 ...

My second NYC solo show, “Get on Your Knees, Jesus Loves You,” opens next Thursday (6-8PM) at Microscope Gallery. The show features new photographs on leather (a technique I’ve been working on for 5 years) and three new 16mm films. Hope to see you there 🖤

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Mano Destra + Kissy Suzuki Suck This essay appears in “Women, Workers, & Whores on Film” Zine with the title “Macho Sluts.”

I wrote about the experimental films Mano Destra and Kissy Suzuki Suck. Two films by sex workers that examine dominatrixing and street-based encounters. You can read it on @screenslate.bsky.social and then head over to AFA to catch the only screening at 5:15 PM.

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Girl 6 This essay has been published in “Women, Workers, & Whores on Film” Zine with the title “All of you girls are W- H- I- T- E”

I wrote a short essay on Spike Lee’s ‘Girl 6’ for @dozierayanna.bsky.social ‘s “Women, Workers, and Whores on Film” Anthology Film Archives screening series premiering tonight. The alternate title for the Zine is “All of you girls are W- H- I- T- E.”

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Reminder that “Women, Workers & Whores on Film” kicks off tomorrow at Anthology Film Archives. The series runs from April 4th-10th. The lineup, showtimes, & tickets can be found via the link below. I will deliver opening remarks tomorrow before Girl 6.

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“Women, Workers, & Whores on Film" Zine Physical copies will be shipped out in April after the series concludes. Limited quantities are available to purchase via Screen Slate, other pre-orders can be made by directly contacting Ayanna Dozie...

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WOMEN, WORKERS, AND WHORES ON FILM
April 4 – 10

Guest-curated by Ayanna Dozier and co-presented with Screen Slate.

Program info: www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screeni...

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They were just sent to the press yesterday. Select physical copies will be available during the screenings and then on Screen Slate in April.

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The zine is off to the press, featuring responses by Natasha Gornik, Elspeth Walker, Lauren Levitt, Lena Chen, & Zalika U. Ibaorimi. It can be ordered via Screen Slate or on-site during the screenings (4/4-10) at Anthology Film Archives ($15). Pre-orders can be sent to my Venmo account @dozierayanna

S3 E11: What Does It Mean to Be Human? More Importantly, What Does It Mean to Have Humanity? with Zalika | When We're Not Hustling Podcast In this episode of When We're Not Hustling, host Jessie Sage engages in a profound conversation with Zalika U Ibaorimi, PhD, exploring the complex intersections of identity, race, and sex work, while ...

Thank you to the ‘When We’re Not Hustling’ podcast for inviting me. This is a podcast where current and former s3x w0rkers discuss s3x w0rk and anything but.

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