@article{ee92294378244afe9c52f164d76bb561,
title = "“Beep, Beep, Who Got the Keys to the Jeep?”: Missy's Trick as (Un)Making Queer",
author = "Witherspoon, {Nia O.}",
note = "Funding Information: Nia Ostrow Witherspoon, (Smith BA/Stanford PhD) is a multidisciplinary artist investigating the metaphysics of black liberation, desire, and diaspora. Currently a 2050 Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, and working primarily in the mediums of playwriting/directing, vocal/sound composition, and creative scholarship, Witherspoon{\textquoteright}s work has traveled both nationally and internationally to theatres, universities, activist organizations, and nonprofits. Described as “especially fascinating” by Backstage Magazine, Witherspoon has been the recipient of multiple honors, including: BRIC{\textquoteright}s Premiere Residency, Astraea Foundation{\textquoteright}s Lesbian Writer Award/Global Arts Fund Grant, Downtown Theatre Festival{\textquoteright}s “Audience Award,” a Wurlitzer Foundation residency, Lambda Literary{\textquoteright}s Emerging Playwriting Fellowship, a CASH Grant from Theatre Bay Area, and a Mellon Dissertation Fellowship. Her staged works have been featured at BRIC, HERE, National Black Theatre, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Dixon Place, Movement Research, and the Painted Bride (Philadelphia), among various venues in the Bay Area. Witherspoon is cofounder of ceremonial-music collective SoliRose, and her vocal performance/composition has been featured in the works of Sharon Bridgforth and Cherr{\'i}e Moraga. Her writing is published in an array of journals and anthologies, and, in addition to her book project, Nation in the Dark, she is currently at work on a play cycle, The Dark Girl Chronicles, which explores state violence inflicted on black cis-and trans-women via the form of Yoruba sacred recitations.",
year = "2017",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1111/jpcu.12565",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "50",
pages = "871--895",
journal = "Journal of Popular Culture",
issn = "0022-3840",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "4",
}