For Me, Us, Our Community

Abstract

This research offers an innovative qualitative methodology, kiki methodology, centering and understanding the experiences of Black queer people. This article connects to how Black queer people share and express their intersecting identities through Black queer storytelling in a novel qualitative methodology approach. Influenced by components of Queer of Color critique, narrative construction, phenomenology, and arts-based research (ABR), I offer a rich, complex, and communal threading of Black queer life within qualitative research. Kiki methodology utilizes three distinct components: (1) Black queer meaning-making (2) Black queer storytelling, and (3) Black queer artistic expression, situating and positioning Black queer narratives within higher education. Kiki methodology is a critical methodological approach that bridges Black queer ways of knowing, Black queer vernacular, and Black queer artistic expression.