Abra M. Johnson
Abra M.
Johnson
Abra M. Johnson is the Education and Dramaturgical Coordinator, as well as a co-founding member of Honey Pot Performance (HPP). A proud Chicagoan and Westsider, she has held a variety of local educational activist posts for two decades. Currently, she is a tenured, Assistant Professor of Sociology and co-chair of Social Sciences at Malcolm X College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC), and a faculty member within the CCC/DePaul Bridge Program. Having spent the last decade teaching sociology while creating performance art, her scholarly interests center the convergence of race, gender, class, sexuality, and, recently, age, in pop cultural media, that, on one hand, coalesce into both a creolized national language and a meta-cultural dialogue regarding these paradigms of difference, and, on the other, emerge as both marginalizing and galvanizing political culture discourses, particularly within the music- and movement-driven genres and cultures of Hip-Hop and (Chicago) House—the nodes and focal points of her fascination. These experiences and interests are the channels through which Professor Johnson persistently pursues a public sociology, pushing beyond the discipline’s academic boundaries to engage with the complexity of communities that define and typify global cities like her hometown, Chicago.
Projects with Candor Arts:
