Matt Richardson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Richardson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Richardson |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3123-3416 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Digital health literacy and immigrants’ access to digitalized healthcare: A comparative study of Spain, and Sweden – implications for public health policy
Improving digital health literacy among immigrant populations requires coordinated action from healthcare professionals, policymakers, and primary care providers. Strategies should include multilingual and interactive digital tools, training in critical evaluation skills, and co-design approaches that actively involve immigrants in the development of digital health solutions. The similarities observed between Spain and Sweden suggest that inclusi…
The Performance of Abolition
What Do We Learn About Protecting Trans/Queer Youth If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist
This essay explores the intersections of lesbian and transfeminism through the oral history of Stacy D., a Black trans lesbian femme and former member of the historic Salsa Soul Sisters organization. Her story underscores the erased history of trans lesbians in foundational lesbian spaces and challenges the cisgender assumptions about who makes up the community. In a time of global anti-trans violence, Stacy’s experiences highlight the urgent nee…
Between Inconceivable and Criminal: Black Trans Feminism and the History of the Present
The terms "Black," "Trans," and "Feminist" do not always have an easy association with each other. This roundtable features six Black trans scholars–Eve Brown, Trystan Cotten, Che Gossett, LaVelle Ridley, Matt Richardson, and C. Riley Snorton–who gathered to discuss what it means to be a Black trans feminist and how Black trans feminisms could shape the future of feminist theory and politics
Ajita Wilson
This article puts forward a consideration of Black womanhood by looking at the softcore films starring African American trans model and actress, Ajita Wilson. Wilson starred in many European softcore and hardcore films from the 1970s until her death in 1987. The author is particularly interested in Wilson's 1976 film The Nude Princess and the 1977 film Black Afrodite (Mavri Afroditi) for their use of soul aesthetics. Conceptualized in dialogue wi…
We Got Issues
We are in a time labeled the “transgender tipping point,” a period characterized by the scaling up of legal protections, visibility, rights, and politics centered on transgender people. The contemporary visual landscape is populated with the bodies of Black women. How does the language and discourse of the tipping point elide the presence of a saturation of Black bodies? In academia this elision has taken the shape of the expansion and institutio…
Make me Wanna Holler: Meshell Ndegeocello, Black Queer Aesthetics, and Feminist Critiques
This article examines the music and performance of Meshell Ndegeocello, arguing that they are part of a cross-Atlantic conversation that pushes the boundaries of Black feminist thought on masculinity and desire. From the time of her debut album in 1993, Ndegeocello has resisted categorization both in her public personae and in her music. Ndegeocello's refusal to be restricted in her stage performance and in her musical expression has created a ri…
From Black Transgender Studies to Colin Dayan: Notes on Methodology
This reflection argues that the oeuvre of Colin Dayan provides critical tools for the elaboration of black transgender studies. Specifically, the authors analyze the trial and imprisonment of black transgender activist CeCe MacDonald using Dayan's work as a methodological model. The essay engages Dayan's work on race and gender in Haiti, History, and the Gods to elaborate a critique of how racism and transphobia become intimately intertwined in t…
Good and Messy: Lesbian and Transgender Identities
Forum: Lesbian Generations 371 4. Ruth Vanita, Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West (New York: Pal grave Macmillan, 2005). 5. Ruth Vanita, Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetryin India, 1780-1870 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). 6. See Vanita, "Camping It Up: Jan Saheb and His School," in her Gender, Sex, and the City. Good and Messy: Lesbian and TranscenderIdentities Matt Richardson Of the list of questions that we h…
My Father Didn't Have a Dick
Using Jackie Kay's novel Trumpet, this essay looks at the "social death" of black queerness, a positionality situated outside the nation and outside blackness, as a site from which to explore what it would mean for black men to embrace the feminine within themselves. Although the concept of social death gives us information about the condition of the slave, it also helps inform the contours of the structural position of blackness well after the f…
Brother / Sister / Comrade / Friend (In homage to Pat Parker)
388 Matt Richardson BrotherISisterI Comrade! Friend (In homage to Pat Parker) Is it a Boy or a Girl? I am walking down the street in my own Black neighborhood. Is it a boy or a girl, they ask, not to me, but at me, like a slap in the face, like a punch in the stomach. "What is it?" rings in my ear, rattles in my skull, shooting through my temple like a bullet. I am no longer recognizable as one of their own. Even though this is my Black neighborh…
How Long
Matt Richardson How Longr (forEddieLong) My lover and I broke the fall of the last televangelist. He landed directly on the soft underside of our bellies, leaving us without air for some time. He got up, without thanking us, speaking in platitudes and dialing his limo driver. When he finally noticed us, he looked at me and knew right away that I was not born with a penis. We heard a chill run up and down his spine. I took my boyfriend's hand. Fag…
Mining the network value of customers
One of the major applications of data mining is in helping companies determine which potential customers to market to. If the expected profit from a customer is greater than the cost of marketing to her, the marketing action for that customer is executed. So far, work in this area has considered only the intrinsic value of the customer (i.e, the expected profit from sales to her). We propose to model also the customer's network value: the expecte…
We Got Issues
We are in a time labeled the “transgender tipping point,” a period characterized by the scaling up of legal protections, visibility, rights, and politics centered on transgender people. The contemporary visual landscape is populated with the bodies of Black women. How does the language and discourse of the tipping point elide the presence of a saturation of Black bodies? In academia this elision has taken the shape of the expansion and institutio…
My Father Didn't Have a Dick
Using Jackie Kay's novel Trumpet, this essay looks at the "social death" of black queerness, a positionality situated outside the nation and outside blackness, as a site from which to explore what it would mean for black men to embrace the feminine within themselves. Although the concept of social death gives us information about the condition of the slave, it also helps inform the contours of the structural position of blackness well after the f…
From Black Transgender Studies to Colin Dayan: Notes on Methodology
This reflection argues that the oeuvre of Colin Dayan provides critical tools for the elaboration of black transgender studies. Specifically, the authors analyze the trial and imprisonment of black transgender activist CeCe MacDonald using Dayan's work as a methodological model. The essay engages Dayan's work on race and gender in Haiti, History, and the Gods to elaborate a critique of how racism and transphobia become intimately intertwined in t…
Good and Messy: Lesbian and Transgender Identities
Forum: Lesbian Generations 371 4. Ruth Vanita, Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West (New York: Pal grave Macmillan, 2005). 5. Ruth Vanita, Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetryin India, 1780-1870 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). 6. See Vanita, "Camping It Up: Jan Saheb and His School," in her Gender, Sex, and the City. Good and Messy: Lesbian and TranscenderIdentities Matt Richardson Of the list of questions that we h…
Make me Wanna Holler: Meshell Ndegeocello, Black Queer Aesthetics, and Feminist Critiques
This article examines the music and performance of Meshell Ndegeocello, arguing that they are part of a cross-Atlantic conversation that pushes the boundaries of Black feminist thought on masculinity and desire. From the time of her debut album in 1993, Ndegeocello has resisted categorization both in her public personae and in her music. Ndegeocello's refusal to be restricted in her stage performance and in her musical expression has created a ri…
Mining the network value of customers
One of the major applications of data mining is in helping companies determine which potential customers to market to. If the expected profit from a customer is greater than the cost of marketing to her, the marketing action for that customer is executed. So far, work in this area has considered only the intrinsic value of the customer (i.e, the expected profit from sales to her). We propose to model also the customer's network value: the expecte…
Brother / Sister / Comrade / Friend (In homage to Pat Parker)
388 Matt Richardson BrotherISisterI Comrade! Friend (In homage to Pat Parker) Is it a Boy or a Girl? I am walking down the street in my own Black neighborhood. Is it a boy or a girl, they ask, not to me, but at me, like a slap in the face, like a punch in the stomach. "What is it?" rings in my ear, rattles in my skull, shooting through my temple like a bullet. I am no longer recognizable as one of their own. Even though this is my Black neighborh…
How Long
Matt Richardson How Longr (forEddieLong) My lover and I broke the fall of the last televangelist. He landed directly on the soft underside of our bellies, leaving us without air for some time. He got up, without thanking us, speaking in platitudes and dialing his limo driver. When he finally noticed us, he looked at me and knew right away that I was not born with a penis. We heard a chill run up and down his spine. I took my boyfriend's hand. Fag…
My Father Didn't Have a Dick
Using Jackie Kay's novel Trumpet, this essay looks at the "social death" of black queerness, a positionality situated outside the nation and outside blackness, as a site from which to explore what it would mean for black men to embrace the feminine within themselves. Although the concept of social death gives us information about the condition of the slave, it also helps inform the contours of the structural position of blackness well after the f…
Good and Messy: Lesbian and Transgender Identities
Forum: Lesbian Generations 371 4. Ruth Vanita, Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West (New York: Pal grave Macmillan, 2005). 5. Ruth Vanita, Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetryin India, 1780-1870 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). 6. See Vanita, "Camping It Up: Jan Saheb and His School," in her Gender, Sex, and the City. Good and Messy: Lesbian and TranscenderIdentities Matt Richardson Of the list of questions that we h…
Make me Wanna Holler: Meshell Ndegeocello, Black Queer Aesthetics, and Feminist Critiques
This article examines the music and performance of Meshell Ndegeocello, arguing that they are part of a cross-Atlantic conversation that pushes the boundaries of Black feminist thought on masculinity and desire. From the time of her debut album in 1993, Ndegeocello has resisted categorization both in her public personae and in her music. Ndegeocello's refusal to be restricted in her stage performance and in her musical expression has created a ri…
From Black Transgender Studies to Colin Dayan: Notes on Methodology
This reflection argues that the oeuvre of Colin Dayan provides critical tools for the elaboration of black transgender studies. Specifically, the authors analyze the trial and imprisonment of black transgender activist CeCe MacDonald using Dayan's work as a methodological model. The essay engages Dayan's work on race and gender in Haiti, History, and the Gods to elaborate a critique of how racism and transphobia become intimately intertwined in t…
We Got Issues
We are in a time labeled the “transgender tipping point,” a period characterized by the scaling up of legal protections, visibility, rights, and politics centered on transgender people. The contemporary visual landscape is populated with the bodies of Black women. How does the language and discourse of the tipping point elide the presence of a saturation of Black bodies? In academia this elision has taken the shape of the expansion and institutio…
Ajita Wilson
This article puts forward a consideration of Black womanhood by looking at the softcore films starring African American trans model and actress, Ajita Wilson. Wilson starred in many European softcore and hardcore films from the 1970s until her death in 1987. The author is particularly interested in Wilson's 1976 film The Nude Princess and the 1977 film Black Afrodite (Mavri Afroditi) for their use of soul aesthetics. Conceptualized in dialogue wi…
Between Inconceivable and Criminal: Black Trans Feminism and the History of the Present
The terms "Black," "Trans," and "Feminist" do not always have an easy association with each other. This roundtable features six Black trans scholars–Eve Brown, Trystan Cotten, Che Gossett, LaVelle Ridley, Matt Richardson, and C. Riley Snorton–who gathered to discuss what it means to be a Black trans feminist and how Black trans feminisms could shape the future of feminist theory and politics
The Performance of Abolition
What Do We Learn About Protecting Trans/Queer Youth If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist
This essay explores the intersections of lesbian and transfeminism through the oral history of Stacy D., a Black trans lesbian femme and former member of the historic Salsa Soul Sisters organization. Her story underscores the erased history of trans lesbians in foundational lesbian spaces and challenges the cisgender assumptions about who makes up the community. In a time of global anti-trans violence, Stacy’s experiences highlight the urgent nee…
Digital health literacy and immigrants’ access to digitalized healthcare: A comparative study of Spain, and Sweden – implications for public health policy
Improving digital health literacy among immigrant populations requires coordinated action from healthcare professionals, policymakers, and primary care providers. Strategies should include multilingual and interactive digital tools, training in critical evaluation skills, and co-design approaches that actively involve immigrants in the development of digital health solutions. The similarities observed between Spain and Sweden suggest that inclusi…
Sociology (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Lesbian (3 works)