Dominique C. Hill is a scholar, creative, and guide who examines Black girlhood, embodiment, and Blackqueer intimacies. Storied by elders as “dancing before she could walk,” and raised by three generations of women who know the power of prayer, girls’ night out, and a strong work ethic, Hill is inspired by Black social dance, everyday artful living, poetry, and queer configurations of family. Committed to creative pathways for social change, Hill is a homegirl of Saving Our Lives, Hear Our Truths; and co-visionary of Hill L. Waters, a queer collective for world-making that conducts workshops and uses performance and ethnographic methods to write and narrate works dedicated to Black liberation. Hill’s forthcoming book titled Black Gurl Reliable (2025), examines embodiment and practices of resistance in Black girlhood. Hill is also co-author of two books, Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet (2022) and Who look at me?!: Shifting the Gaze of Education Through Blackness, Queerness, and the Body (2019). Currently, Hill is a Visiting Artist at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park and an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Colgate University.