Tiffany Willoughby-Herard (NHC Fellow, 2022–23)

Fellowship Work Summary, 2022–23

Tiffany Willoughby-Herard drafted three chapters of her book in progress ‘I Meant for You to be Free’: Winnie Mandela’s Love Letter to and Pedagogies for Young South Africans, the Post-1994 Generation. Willoughby-Herard revised, proofread, and witnessed the publication of “Fatima Meer’s Father” in “Fatima Meer’s Father: Storytelling-History, Racialized Men of Color and Feminism, and Overcoming the Precarity of Black-Asian Solidarity” in Globalizing Political Theory edited by Smita Rahman, Katherine A. Gordy, and Shirin S. Deylami by Routledge Taylor and Francis (2023). Willoughby-Herard also collaborated with editor Dr. Martin Boston for a special issue in Third World Thematics about the cross-generational political education that is experienced by the family members and friends of anti-apartheid activists. Willoughby-Herard’s article “Political Education in a Food Pantry: Child Perspectives on the Liturgy and Agape of Rev. Mangedwa Nyathi in Detroit, Michigan, USA” (forthcoming) will appear in that volume.

Willoughby-Herard, along with coauthors Chasia Jeffries and Mariel Rowland, completed the first draft of “Pulling Ourselves Together: Looking Towards Black Reparative Theory and Pedagogy in Post-George Floyd Higher Education” for the journal Social Justice. Willoughby-Herard is completing the article, “‘I Guess I Have to Just Put My Dick on the Table’: Trade for Tenure or Black Sexualities as Self-Defense” for a memorial volume on Evelyn Hammond’s field-defining Black feminist sexualities article entitled “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality” (1994) that was published in Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies.