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Dr. Gervais Marsh is a writer, curator and scholar whose work is deeply invested in Black life, concepts of relationality and intimacy. They received a PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and are currently a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow with the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Their writing, artistic and curatorial work is rooted in Transnational Black feminisms, with recent curatorial projects including Contours of the Interior at VisArts Center and To be pained is to have lived through feeling with Canada NYC. Their writing has been published in several books and exhibition catalogs including Denzil Hurley (monograph), Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, KMAC Museum Triennial (2022), as well as online publications such as The Financial Times, Hyperallergic, C Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and ARTS.BLACK, among others. They have received fellowships and curatorial support from the Jamaica Art Society, Terra Foundation for American Art, VisArts Center, The Gay and Lesbian Review, Northwestern University, and Independent Curators International. They have taught undergraduate/graduate courses focused on Black Feminist theory, praxis and performance, and Black queer studies. They are an editor with Ruckus Journal and research interests include Black Studies, Art history, Caribbean Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies. They grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, a home that continues to shape their understanding of self and relationship to the world.