Meanings
- A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage, variant of Shaniqua.
Despite the laundry list of media, a throughline extends across Shanequa Gay’s Gateway to the South, namely genre scenes depicting Black people in varying levels of abstraction.
2024 April 28, Leia Genis, “Shanequa Gay Completes a Work Begun a Century Ago”, in Hyperallergic, archived from the original on 19 Dec 2025
Cite this entry
Shanequa. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shanequa
“Shanequa.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shanequa. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Shanequa,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shanequa.
Source: Shanequa on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.