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About M Shelly Conner, PhD

M Shelly Conner, Phd 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."

Through a Dapper Lens

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.