Lectures on Tap - "TLC, Aaliyah, and More: The Resistance of 90s R&B Women"

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🧠 Lecture: "TLC, Aaliyah, and More: The Resistance of 90s R&B Women"

🎙️ Speaker: Dr. Kimberly Colclough

Step into the world of 90s R&B, where women like Janet Jackson, TLC, Mary J. Blige, Aaliyah, and SWV turned “love songs” into anthems of resistance. In this engaging lecture, Dr. Kimberly Colclough will explore how these artists used R&B as a powerful space to claim autonomy, embrace vulnerability, assert sexual agency, and set unapologetic boundaries.

Through a mix of cultural analysis, storytelling, and the soundtracks that shaped a generation, Dr. Colclough will reveal how these women helped redefine how Black women saw themselves—and what they expected from relationships, community, and society at large.

A professor of Africana studies and a true lover of music, Dr. Colclough is known for her fun, high-energy style and culturally rich, real-world approach to learning. She brings scholarship to life, using music as a lens to unpack power, representation, and lived experience.

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Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.

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