About
Ashley Crooks-Allen (They/Them) is the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Sociology department at Grinnell College.They were the 2022-2024 Dubois-Mandela Rodney / Anti-Racism Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan. They obtained their PhD from the University of Georgia, where they focused on Black ethnic identity, social movements, and social media. Their dissertation is titled, “Mestizaje Undone: A Qualitative Social Media Analysis of Afro-Latinx Identity & Social Movements.” This work takes a qualitative approach to understanding how Afro-Latinx people use social media to make identity claims in relation to the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Hot Glue Gun Chronicles
The Hot Glue Gun Chronicles
“The Hot Glue Gun Chronicles is a flaming assemblage of penetrating verse and poetic musicality. Crooks-Allen’s timely offering, in the tradition of Black queer poets like June Jordan and Pat Parker before them, does not shy away from the straight-up truth. In their words, we might very well locate the keys to our own internal freedom.”
- Darnell Moore, author of No Ashes in The Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
