Curriculum Vitae & Publications

Michelle B. Taylor, Ph.D., M.S.W. CV (download) (view)

Peer-reviewed Articles

Michelle B. Taylor (2024). “Black Women’s Rage As Liberation”. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Vol. 5, Iss. 1

Michelle B. Taylor (2024). “There’s No Place Like Home: Ballroom Culture as an Invocation of African Family Values” National Council of Black Studies Annual Report 2024

Michelle B. Taylor (2022). "Teaching to Transgress: Cheikh Anta Diop and the African Intellectual Reformation" Imhotep Research Journal, 28-37

Michelle B. Taylor (2019). “Writing Truth to Power: Women Writers of the Black Arts Movement” The Crisis, Vol. 126, Iss. 4, p. 17

Selected Articles

2023. “Remembering Dorothy Pitman Hughes, an Icon of Black Feminism” InStyle. https://www.instyle.com/dorothy-pitman-hughes-posthumous-feature-7095830

2021. “When Gabby Petito disappeared, the world watched. Destini Smothers was ignored” The Philadelphia Inquirer. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/destini-smothers-gabby-petito-missing-black-women-20210929.html

2018. “Breathing While Black" Essence; New York Vol. 49, Iss. 4, pp. 118-119

2017. "How anti-abortion extremists are exploiting #BlackLivesMatter to vilify 

African-American women.” Open Democracy. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/anti-abortion-extremists-exploiting-black-lives-matter/

2016. "We Have Had to Defend Ourselves Against Online Threats.” The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/08/03/how-to-crack-down-on-social-media-threats/we-have-had-to-defend-ourselves-against-online-threats

2015. "Keep Harriet Tubman – and all women – off the $20 bill.” The Washington Post. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/05/14/keep-harriet-tubman-and-all-women-off-the-20-bill/


2014. "Why Black Women Struggle More with Domestic Violence.” TIME. https://time.com/3313343/ray-rice-black-women-domestic-violence/

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