Muna Dahir
Biographic Data
| ID | 8966498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Muna Dahir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Muna |
| FAMILY NAME | Dahir |
| SIGNATURE | DAHIR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“The Word Black Has Geographic Power”
This essay was written on the occasion of the 20th anniversary reprint of Demonic Grounds (2026), and the publication of Heartbreak and Other Geographies (2026), a collection of McKittrick’s writing edited by Brittany Meché and Camilla Hawthorne. It pursues some of the lessons that thread through McKittrick’s oeuvre, tracing the knotty threads of Black study that cross and intersect across sites of creative production, knowledge, methods, rebelli…
The Poem, a Smile, and Black Feminist Placemaking
In Spring 2025 a collective of artists, scholars, poets, curators, and designers exhibited A Smile Split by the Stars, which closely engaged a single poem, nourbeSe philip’s “Meditations on the Declension of Beauty by the Girl with the Flying Cheek-bones.” Working with philip and her archival materials, the installation sought to spatialize the poem by staging a series of multi-textured, multi-sensorial, and audio-visual compositions. This essay …
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“The Word Black Has Geographic Power”
This essay was written on the occasion of the 20th anniversary reprint of Demonic Grounds (2026), and the publication of Heartbreak and Other Geographies (2026), a collection of McKittrick’s writing edited by Brittany Meché and Camilla Hawthorne. It pursues some of the lessons that thread through McKittrick’s oeuvre, tracing the knotty threads of Black study that cross and intersect across sites of creative production, knowledge, methods, rebelli…
The Poem, a Smile, and Black Feminist Placemaking
In Spring 2025 a collective of artists, scholars, poets, curators, and designers exhibited A Smile Split by the Stars, which closely engaged a single poem, nourbeSe philip’s “Meditations on the Declension of Beauty by the Girl with the Flying Cheek-bones.” Working with philip and her archival materials, the installation sought to spatialize the poem by staging a series of multi-textured, multi-sensorial, and audio-visual compositions. This essay …
Beauty (1 work) · Black feminism (1 work) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Conversation (1 work) · Feminism (1 work) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (1 work) · Girl (1 work) · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought (1 work) · Latin American and Latino Studies (1 work)