Cloe Gentile Reyes, PhD (she/her) is a Miami-born Boricua scholar, poet, and performer. She is a Faculty Fellow at NYU and earned her PhD in Musicology from UC Santa Barbara. Cloe’s writing explores how Caribbean femmes navigate intergenerational trauma and healing through decolonial sound, fashion, and dance. Her dissertation is entitled “Reggaetón as Resistance: Negotiating Racialized Femininity through Rap, Miniskirts, and Perreo.” She has published essays with Sounding Out!, the leading sound studies blog, and Intervenxions, the magazine of the NYU Latinx Project. Her poetry and short stories have been featured in the womanist magazine, Brown Sugar Lit, and she often collaborates with sound artists and musicians. She has presented and performed at PopCon, Society for American Music, and the International Association for the Study of Popular Music-US Branch, among several other conferences and gatherings.

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