Fellow graduate students could only observe these black women’s bodies. The issue at hand is not that these speakers-visiting and core faculty from our university and leaders in their fields-were not attractive women, but that the intellectual production of these women did not provide the foundation for my colleagues’ attraction. Instead, fellow students talked about the often senior and sometimes advanced mid-career expert’s hair, clothing, impressive physical presence, or overall beauty. At almost no time did auditoriums or classrooms pour out with chatter about the scholarly intervention we’d just witnessed. When I was in graduate school, whenever a black woman scholar presented her work a peculiar phenomenon emerged: peers always and only remarked on the speaker’s person, rather than on her ideas.
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