Vic J. Kennedy was born and raised in the Southeastern United States, a location rich in Black and queer history that holds immense influence over their current research and work. Their first aspiration in life as a young child was to be a fiction writer, and they haven't stopped writing since.

The scholarship that Vic currently finds interest in is framed primarily by their work completed as a student at Agnes Scott College. In May 2019, they received a dual bachelor’s degree in both Classical Languages & Literature as well as Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. They focus on postmodern feminist texts, media analysis/critique, and community organizing based in restorative justice. They owe their knowledge of feminist critique to inspirational scholars and activists who came before them. Catherine Mackinnon, bell hooks, Raquel Willis, Dean Spade and C. Riley Snorton are some of their more notable inspirations.

In May 2023, they completed an M.A. in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. Here, they composed their graduate thesis “Tight Coils: Black Transfemininity, Transhegemony, and Identity Formation in the U.S. South” under the direction of Dr. Daniel B. Coleman. This work focuses on narratives from Black transfeminine people in the South and the implications that these narratives have on the field of Black ontological gender theory.

Outside of the classroom, they tend to busy theirself with volunteer efforts, activism actions, and mutual aid efforts across the American Southeast and within queer contexts of color. They currently work as a Content Advisor with The Fall Line Podcast, helping to document the cases of marginalized individuals who are missing and murdered across the southeast. They also work as a Healthline Coordinator at Access Reproductive Care Southeast and teach gender studies classes as an adjunct instructor in Southeastern colleges. They intend on pursuing both a Juris Doctorate and a Doctorate of Philosophy in the near future.

In addition to their work with The Fall Line, Vic has recently started hosting, editing, and maintaining their own podcast entitled Vicsplaining that is available to stream via Spotify, Apple Music or RSS Feed. The raw audio files of their episodes are also posted here to this website.

Their hobbies outside of work and school include reading feminist theory, writing fiction, and hanging out with folks in and around their community.

Vic is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. (what’s this?)