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Robin Boylorn

Host, Crunk Culture

Robin M. Boylorn is a college professor, founding member of the Crunk Feminist Collective, and host of the award-winning Crunk Culture commentary. Her academic and public intellectual work centers lived experience and is concerned with the relationship between cultural criticism, creativity and storytelling. She is the author of Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience, co-writer of The Crunk Feminist Collection, and co-editor of Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life. Born and raised in rural North Carolina, she loves language, sports, and porch view sunsets. She is currently re-reading Toni Morrison novels and is obsessed with self-care.

  • In this season premiere of Crunk Culture, Robin Boylorn discusses environmental racism - the people most affected by it, the consequences of it and some solutions to address it.
  • In this segment of Crunk Culture, Robin Boylorn breaks down Missing White Woman Syndrome, a phenomenon that results in an imbalance of attention from media and law enforcement for missing people of color...
  • In today’s Crunk Culture commentary, Robin Boylorn explains some of the factors of Black Infant Mortality and offers some suggestions on how it can be prevented…
  • In this week’s Crunk Culture commentary, Robin Boylorn discusses the impacts of Covid-19 and the need for inclusive health services to foster health equity…
  • Pregnancy-related deaths in the US, especially among black women, have been problematic for quite some time, but not much has been done to prevent and alleviate this issue.In this first installment of Crunk Culture, Robin Boylorn addresses black maternal mortality and two of its factors...