“Beauty Alone Won’t Save Us” at TEDxWCC
Let me start by saying, WOW! What a remarkable experience and joy it was to present my talk, “Beauty Alone Won’t Save Us, But What We Do With It Might” at TEDxWCC last night! I’m told there were hundreds of people present and tuned in online, and I am so grateful to have been among…
“There are no Black people in Riverdance”
There’s something magical about “Cry of the Celts” playing loudly over one’s surround sound, or better yet, the speakers from the stage. The rich sound of heavies (the hard shoes that sound like tap shoes) drumming against the floors, the thrum of the violins and drums reverberating through your chest. It is a sensation so visceral and…
What is Liberatory Education?
For my preliminary blog posts, I want to take the time to describe my positionality to the adjectives listed in my tagline. The first and perhaps most important is the notion of being “liberatory.” To understand liberation, I believe it is essential to understand what it is not and then position that in the context…
Hello & Welcome!
Thank you so much for popping by my website! I am very excited to begin sharing content with you and appreciate you joining me on this journey. I will be populating this space soon with my work. In the meantime, please feel free to sign up for the blog (at the bottom of the page)…
Scholarly & Public Works
- Artoversion: Crafting Rest Through Creation: Interview with Alexander Clinthorne, MFA (2026)
- Beyond Beauty: Aesthetic Philosophy as a Tool for Liberatory Education (2025)
- Deviance and the Aesthetic Schema: A Queer(ed) Somaesthetic Analysis of “Poor Things” (2023) Bella Baxter
- 3 things I learned while grieving the death of my father…who deadnamed, misgendered & hurt me
- “You’re Throwing a Temper Tantrum, I Want Liberation. We Are Not The Same.“
- “The Exploitation and Marginalization of Contingent and Adjunct Labor” (2020)
Kei Graves, Ph.D 