Mariah Webber

Mariah Webber is a writer and artist from North Carolina. She considers her life to be an embodied extension of her ancestors and chooses to honor her lineage by centering ancestral reverence & spirituality within her lifework. Mariah has received a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Appalachian State University and a Master’s in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Currently, she studies as doctoral student of Feminist Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara as a Eugene Cota-Robles Scholar.

Her research broadly explores black erotics, performance/stylistic technologies, and Afro-indigenous spiritual methods of healing in the US South through the lens of queer black feminisms. Mariah’s working dissertation unravels the connective threads between spirituality and eroticism within the aesthetics and performances found in Black Southern strip clubs.

Mariah is a trap music connoisseur and ancestor vessel. she comes in peace but also carries one.