Dee Marco is a creative research scholar based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dee’sresearch pivots around social and cultural practices and experiences of the everyday, particularly in relation to person-hood, mothering identities, Black feminisms, practices and communions of care and critical joy finding in an exhausting world. She is the founder of the multimodal research project, Mother. Lab and is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Wits University. Dee’s research is also broadly interested in visual culture, cinema and black women’s methods of narration and storytelling. Dee is a research associate in The Centre for Race, Gender and Class at The University of Johannesburg. In addition to critical creative work, Dee hosts diversity workshops and conversations with caregivers and mothers. Dee is the co-editor of the book,Sasinda Futhi Siselapha: Black feminist approaches to cultural studies in South Africa's twenty-five years since 1994.Dee has contributed to various academic journals, newspapers and podcasts, including one she co-hosts, titled Mamas with Attitude. Dee's work through Mother. Lab focuses on a series of critical public engagements over stretches of time. Some of the projects are: House of Complaints, Tiny Letters and a collaborative data visualisation project called, Tiny Letters for Mothers. Critical to the work is the collection of data about motherhood and mental health as well as the visual and aesthetic attention and experience brought into the work as a way of consistently marking the various and ongoing labours of mothering and/ or care.

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