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September 21, 2020, Filed Under: Audio QT

Hope is a Discipline: An Interview with Xavier Livermon

Podcast hosted by Karma R. Chávez


Photograph of Xavier Livermon leaning to the right, hand on chin, wearing a dark blue velvety fedora hat and a white and blue cotton short sleeved shirt

In this episode of Audio QT, Karma Chávez talks with Dr. Xavier Livermon about his work exploring how Black queer youth use art, aesthetics, and creative practice to animate Black freedom politics. 

Xavier Livermon is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC-Santa Cruz.  He has recently published Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Postapartheid South Africa (Duke University Press, 2020). 


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