About me
Brianna Simmons (she/her/hers) is a medical anthropologist, global health researcher, educator, bridgeworker, parfumier, and Assistant Professor of Black Studies at San Diego City College.
my why
That being alive should be a profound source of devastation, revelation and joy is not unique. The reasons that Black people globally have never had an era of peace, is. Every moment of my earthly existence has been shaped by these tensions. I arrived with a deep curiosity about the mysteries of the body, healing, and the difficulty in accounting for, naming and doing away with the seeming permanence of antiblackness. I research and create material and immaterial resources across languages, generations, regions and disciplines to better understand antiblackness, the source of my understanding and what the black children who came before me, grew to parent me, that was me, are my family, are alongside me, and all that will be, require.
