Supa Dupa Fly: Missy Elliott’s Black Feminist Worldmaking
Supa Dupa Fly: Missy Elliott’s Black Feminist Worldmaking
- Date:
- Monday, October 13, 2025
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 7:00pm
- Location:
- Main Auditorium
- Location:
- Main Library (300 N. Roxboro St)
- Audience:
- Adult Emerging Adult: 18-24 Year Olds
- Categories:
- Humanities Music
Join Durham County Library for a special lecture by Brittany Hutchinson, PhD candidate in the Department of American Studes at UNC Chapel Hill.
Missy Elliott’s Black Feminist Worldmaking initiates a critical discussion of Black feminist visual performance across the music videos associated with the artist’s 1997 debut album. Known for her genre-defying lyrical and sonic performance, Missy Elliott’s relationship with the visually uncanny, humorous, and absurd distinguishes her from her peers. These videos gesture towards four concepts of Black feminist thought: Glitching, The Spectral, Rage, and Afrofuturism, providing insight into Elliott’s ability to create space for liberation, futurity, and self-actualization despite ongoing regimes of oppression.