Watufani M. Poe is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Tulane University. He earned his PhD in Africana Studies from Brown University in 2021. Before joining the faculty at Tulane, he served as a Center for Humanistic Inquiry Postdoctoral Fellow at Amherst College from 2021-2022 and as faculty at the University of Pittsburgh from 2022-2023. His manuscript project, Resisting Fragmentation: The Embodied Politics of Black Queer Worldmaking is an ethnohistoric analysis of Black LGBTQ+ activism in Brazil and the United States to outline the ways Black LGBTQ people push for freedom across various social and political movement spaces.