I'm Shana and I write. I write about blackness, black women, black labor, black sexuality, black radical politics, and black culture. I write about myself as the daughter of black folks who think, write, and resist.
Shana A. Russell, Ph.D. is an academic turned public school teacher based in Newark, NJ. She is a southern transplant, a public historian, an organizer, and educator. As a scholar and writer, her work centers on working people and the beauty in the stories we tell about everyday life.