Shawn Trenell O’Neal is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies at University of Colorado Boulder, in addition to a renowned DJ and audio producer. His research includes African American studies, Africana studies, musicology, ethnomusicology, queer and trans of color critique, and women of color feminisms. Shawn is a founding member and researcher in Lyripeutics Storytelling: Remixing Our Reality Through Hip Hop Education. He is currently developing an interdisciplinary, and intersectional theoretical concept called Audio Intersectionality (A.I). A.I. are interdisciplinary herstories and histories, active responses, self-narratives, self-defenses, traumas, and celebrations, regarding race, gender, and sexuality communicated through sound, music, and performance. The dissertation title is Audio Intersectionality: Self- Identification Within the Processes of Interdisciplinary Explorations in Sound, Music, and Performance. Shawn O’Neals’ work appears in Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism (2020).
