My Biography
Dr. Brendane A. Tynes is a Black queer feminist scholar and storyteller from Columbia, South Carolina. She received her Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in Cultural Anthropology with a minor in Education from Duke University. After graduating college, she taught high school science at a public high school in Charlotte, North Carolina, while working as a Student Engagement Organizer at Know Your IX, a nonprofit dedicated to ending sexual violence.
In 2023, Brendane received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University, where she completed her dissertation on the affective responses of Black women and nonbinary people to multiple forms of violence within the Movement for Black Lives. Her research interests include Black feminist anthropology, Black feminist critical theory, gendered violence, Black political movements, memory, and affect studies. Her scholarship has received generous support from the Ford Foundation and Wenner-Gren Foundation.
As one of the former co-hosts of Zora’s Daughters Podcast, Brendane has continued podcasting through her latest project black.loved.free., a spiritual-political podcast that brings together Black spirituality and Black feminist political theory. Outside of academe, you can find Brendane dancing, singing, writing poetry, and creating healing spaces for survivors of interpersonal violence. They sit at the center of her commitment to Black feminist abolitionist anti-oppression movement building. You can find more of Brendane’s work at brendanetynes.com.