Dustin Gavin (he/him) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Departments of Religious Studies and African American Studies at Yale University. He received his B.A. in Journalism from Howard University, an M.A. in Media Studies from The New School, and completed his second M.A. in Religion and Visual Arts at Yale Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music. Dustin's research examines the overlap and confluence of sacred and profane idioms to examine the histories, aesthetics, and embodied performances of black women, sissies, and femmes across U.S. Southern regions. Follow Sacred Writes: https://www.sacred-writes.org/ https://twitter.com/Sacred_Writes Listen to the complete Sacred Writes-Classical Ideas collection: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0JzteHE3RIyOKA9xosmK6W