Mariah Webber

mariah webber, graduate student, pronouns: she/her
Graduate Student
she/her/hers

Specialization

Black, queer, feminist theories; Sex, Sexualities, Erotics, and Sex Work; Black Diasporic Religions; Southern Studies

Education

2015                 Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
BA in Psychology, Sociology Concentration 

 

2017                 The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
MA in Sociology, May 2017
Thesis: “We Don’t Love These Hoes: Exploring Misogynoir and Black Male Patriarchy Through Sexual Double Standards”

Bio

mariah webber, m.a. is a writer, educator, artist, poet, diviner & descendant of southern sharecroppers born and raised in waco, north carolina. she received a bachelor’s in psychology from appalachian state university in 2015 and a master’s in sociology from the university of north carolina at charlotte in 2017. currently, mariah is a fourth-year doctoral student of feminist studies at the university of california at santa barbara as a eugene cota-robles scholar. mariah believes that freedom does not lie within the academy however, she is often curious about the exploration of black erotics, spiritualities, stylistic technologies, and intracommunal methods of healing through the lense of womanism and black queer feminisms. mariah’s work has been published in sistories: a literary magazine (2019, 2021) and becoming undisciplined (2019).

Publications

2021                 “core response as correspondence,” Sistories: An Interactive Black Feminist Literary Magazine, Volume II: Correspondence.

2019                 “Southern Spaces & Formative Places for N. Carolinian Black Women,” Sistories: An Interactive Black Feminist Literary Magazine, Volume I: The Forged Woman.

2019                 “lessons on becoming undiscliplined”, becoming undisciplined: a zine, edited by the becoming undisciplined collective. Available at escholarship.org/uc/item/7c16q31w.

2021                 “core response as correspondence,” Sistories: An Interactive Black Feminist Literary Magazine, Volume II: Correspondence.

2019                 “Southern Spaces & Formative Places for N. Carolinian Black Women,” Sistories: An Interactive Black Feminist Literary Magazine, Volume I: The Forged Woman.

2019                 “lessons on becoming undiscliplined”, becoming undisciplined: a zine, edited by the becoming undisciplined collective. Available at escholarship.org/uc/item/7c16q31w.