PRESENTER

Lynneé Denise

Lynnée Denise is a global practitioner of sound, language, and Black Atlantic thought. A writer and interdisciplinary artist from Los Angeles, she lives between Amsterdam and Johannesburg. Shaped by her parent’s record collection and the cultural currents of the 1980s, her work foregrounds the intimacies of underground nightclub movements, music migration, and bass culture across the African Diaspora. A doctoral student in Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London, Denise’s research explores how sound system culture functions as a living archive and a site of refuge for the Black queer diaspora. Her debut book, Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters (University of Texas Press), is a narrative journey of reclamation that intricately details and humanizes the full life, musical contributions, and cultural impact of Willie Mae Thornton.