SHA'MIRA COVINGTON

Womanist | Yogi | Liberationist

Sha’Mira is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors and the Institute of African American Studies at the University of Georgia. Her research explores fashion and dress as cultural, historical, social, and political processes involved in and affected by histories of colonial domination, anti-colonial resistance, and processes of decolonization. Her dissertation, "The Revolution will be Embodied", is an archival meditation on the myriad of ways that Black women have used embodied modes as liberatory praxis.