About M Shelly Conner, PhD


M Shelly Conner uses her experiences as a dapperqueer black woman to produce multi-genre works that examine intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. Her collection of writing spans multiple media including print, screen and web platforms and vacillates between the sardonic humor of Quare Life and the informative exposition of essays like "Discovering My Femininity in Menswear." Her novel everyman follows the historical contours of the Great Migration of African Americans that fled the American south in droves for better racial and economic opportunities in the north. This mass relocation, which far exceeded that of both the California Gold Rush and the Dust Bowl migration, occurred from 1915 to 1972 and greatly changed the demographics of urban cities like Chicago.
As a whole, Shelly's writing makes queer interventions in a tradition of storytelling about black life and families from Jim Crow South to south side Chicago; from Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun to Lena Waithe's The Chi. Her work has appeared in AfterEllen, Curve Magazine, The Feminist Wire and other print and digital publications. Shelly writes about the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality in dapper queer culture.
Dapper Vista DIY & More
DIY culture, lifestyle, and food from a dapperqueer aesthetic.
DapperVista DIY follows my journey to acquire skills essential to building our homestead. I put my YouTube education to test and create hydroponic grow systems, butcher meat, and other projects that will help us live a self-sustainable, healthier life as we find and purchase our homestead.
DapperVista Tutorials are geared towards a dapper fashion aesthetic. Instructional vids in tying bowties and neckwear and other fashion tips.
DapperVista Cooks videos are all about my love for all things food. I'll grill it, bake it, roast it, marinate it...and eat it!
The Adventures of Pink Whiskey & Bourbon Girl vlog is our humorous take on life through a bourbonated lens.
These are all works in progress. At times, I may be more focused on one area than others.
Please enjoy the #DapperVista journey in all of its forms.
DapperVista DIY follows my journey to acquire skills essential to building our homestead. I put my YouTube education to test and create hydroponic grow systems, butcher meat, and other projects that will help us live a self-sustainable, healthier life as we find and purchase our homestead.
DapperVista Tutorials are geared towards a dapper fashion aesthetic. Instructional vids in tying bowties and neckwear and other fashion tips.
DapperVista Cooks videos are all about my love for all things food. I'll grill it, bake it, roast it, marinate it...and eat it!
The Adventures of Pink Whiskey & Bourbon Girl vlog is our humorous take on life through a bourbonated lens.
These are all works in progress. At times, I may be more focused on one area than others.
Please enjoy the #DapperVista journey in all of its forms.