Montia Breanne Daniels

Montia Daniels (she/her) has recently graduated with Highest Honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in Media and Journalism & Women's and Gender Studies. She's a student of Black feminist theory and is committed to learning more about herself and others, authentically, through research and community work with Black queer women and non-binary folks. Montia's interest in queer studies stems from her own experiences as a Black queer woman in the South, and she is interested in Black queer studies, Black feminist epistemology, religious and spirituality studies, zines, and oral history.

Her honors thesis focused on how Black queer women and non-binary folks' use and creations of zines exhibited Black feminist epistemological practices and presented representation of their communities that counter mainstream media’s erasure of Black queer women and non-binary folks, by providing real and imagined depictions of their lives and experiences.