The color pynk : Black femme art for survival / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley ; afterword by Candice Lyons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tinsley, Omise'eke Natasha, 1971- author.

Series:

William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lu, Kelsey.

Monáe, Janelle.

Huxtable, Juliana, 1987-.

Huxtable, Juliana.

Mock, Janet, 1983-.

Mock, Janet.

Tourmaline.

Moore, Indya.

Feminist aesthetics.

Feminism and the arts.

Womanism.

African American sexual minorities.

African American feminists.

African American LGBTQ+ people.

LGBTQ+ people.

Physical Description:

278 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022.

Summary:

"This book is a series of examinations of Black queer cis and transfeminity, a personal and loving homage to "Black femmes poetics of survival during the Trump era and beyond." Tinsley examines contemporary Black femme cultural production: the music of Kelsey Lu and Janelle Monáe; the visual work of Juliana Huxtable; Janet Mock's writing/directing of the TV show Pose, and the creations of Tourmaline; the fashion of Indya Moore; and (F)empower. She is interested in Black femme representations in film, popular music, television, graphic novels, and poetry to conceptualize Black femme as figuration: that is, as a set of consciously, continually rescripted cultural and aesthetic practices that disrupt conventional meanings of race, gender, and sexuality"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue. For Alice Walker

Introduction. Femme-inist is to feminist as PYNK is to pink

Part One. Pussy power and nonbinary vaginas

Janelle Monáe : fem futures, pynk pants, and pussy power

Indya Moore : nonbinary wild vagina dresses & biologically femme penises

Part Two. Hymns for crazy black femmes

Kelsey Lu : braids, twists, and the shapes of black femme depression

Tourmaline : head scarves and freedom dreams

Part Three. Black femme environmentalism for the futa

(F)empower : swimwear, wade-ins, and trashy ecofeminism

Juliana Huxtable : black witch-cunt lipstick and kinky vegan femme-inism

Conclusion. Where is the black in black femme freedom?

Epilogue. For my child

Afterword by Candice Lyons : pynk parlance, a glossary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781477321157

1477321152

9781477326442

1477326448

OCLC:

1302182952