Kaila Adia Story (M.A., Temple University; B.A. Women’s Studies DePaul University) is a doctoral student in the Department of African American Studies at Temple University. Her research interests are related to Body Image Politics and the subsequent embodiment performances of African men and women, Gender Socialization, Sexuality, Feminisms, the Sexual and Gendered Scripting of the African Body. For her dissertation she will be conducting a historical textual analysis of the public embodiment performances of Black women and men who perform Black Femininity, while situating the analysis of the Gendered and Sexual Scripting of the African Body within a historical genealogy from the “Hottentot Venus” to the current images of the “Video Vixen”, the Black drag queen, and the Black butch woman. Kaila has also taught undergraduate courses in Introduction to Black Women’s Studies, The Black Women, Mass Media and the Black Community, and Gay & Lesbian Lives, Introduction to African American Studies, and Introduction to Africana Studies. Her essay “Performing Venus: From Hottentot to Video Vixen: The Historical Legacy of Black Female Body Commodification, which is a small portion of her dissertation will be published as a chapter in the upcoming anthology Home Girls Make Some Noise: Hip Hop & Feminism edited by Aisha S. Durham, Elaine Richardson, Rachel Raimist and Gwendolyn Pough. Kaila is also a Candidate in the Women’s Studies Certificate Program.