my story.

Tabitha Chester, PhD is a performance studies scholar specializing in gender, sexuality and religion in the Black diaspora. Their manuscript in progress “Always a Preacher’s Daughter: The Performance of Gender and Sexuality in and beyond the Church” (under advance contract with Northwestern University Press), interrogates the archetypal narrative of the "wild preacher's daughter." Their research uses both popular culture and the lived experiences of Black women to explore the development and performance of sexual and gender identities.